Boston Athenaeum

Boston Athenaeum
Boston, MA
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Eighth Wonder: The Library of Alexandria
Andrew G. Jameson
October 23, 2007
01:03:57
The Library of Alexandria is regarded as the eighth wonder of the ancient world and the first great library in Western history.
Oracle Bones: Journey Between China's Past and Present
Peter Hessler
May 16, 2006
00:56:55
Peter Hessler discusses his new book, Oracle Bones: A Journey between China's Past and Present, which looks at the country through a kaleidoscopic lens of history, archeology, language, and contemporary culture.
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Recreating the Conversations of Titian, Tintoretto, and Veronese
Frederick Ilchman
April 14, 2009
01:07:59
Frederick Ilchman discusses the largest exhibition of Italian Renaissance paintings in Boston in 50 years, which offers an ideal opportunity to bring to life the heated debates on art and the creative rivalry of the greatest Venetian painters of the 16th century: Titian, Tintoretto, and Veronese.
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Moying Li: Snow Falling in Spring
Moying Li
May 3, 2008
00:37:43
Moying Li tells the compelling story of one girl's difficult but determined coming-of-age during the Cultural Revolution in China.
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Historical Photographs of Children and Families from the Boston Athenaeum
Sally Pierce
April 25, 2009
00:55:45
Sally Pierce discusses the images displayed in the exhibition cases in the Bayard Denry Long Room of the Boston Athenaeum.
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Harriet Tubman: Bound for the Promised Land
Kate Clifford Larson
February 10, 2004
00:52:38
Historian Kate Clifford Larson discusses her new book, Bound for the Promised Land, which draws on a trove of new documents and sources as well as extensive genealogical research and reveals Harriet Tubman as a complex woman who was brilliant, shrewd, deeply religious, and passionate in her p
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A.E. Housman: A Life in Letters
Christopher Ricks
April 3, 2008
00:53:15
Christopher Ricks and Archie Burnett discuss the work of A.E. Housman, English poet and classical scholar.