Ep. 51 – Why Baseball Matters
March 29, 2018
Baseball is America’s Pastime but can it survive in the technological era when games are longer than most attention spans? Susan Jacoby, author and longtime baseball fan, discusses the history… READ MORE
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The Olympians of Ancient Greece
August 12, 2016
Neil Faulkner— In the early days, the Olympics seem to have been an informal local festival with only aristocratic contestants. Athletes competed not so much as representatives of their cities… READ MORE
Olympic Fashions: Elegance in an Age of Crisis
February 7, 2014
Today, the exhibition Elegance in an Age of Crisis: Fashions of the 1930s opens at The Museum at FIT. The show looks at women’s clothing and menswear, from a global… READ MORE
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