LoC By Joe Alton What do you get when you put together two gifted politicians from different parties, a fledgling nation, a code of honor, and a lot of personal grievances? You get Hamilton vs. Burr.
Photo Credit:Franz Krüger, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons Public Domain By Lars Møller The Myth of Carefree Communism: Why some long for the imagined “freedom from worry” of the defunct GDR.
Photo Credit:RKO Radio Pictures, still photographer Alexander Kahle, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons Public Domain By Charlton Allen Orson Welles’s film may no longer shock us the way it shocked audiences in 1941—but only because so much of modern cinema learned to speak its language.