Book of Kells: Exploring the evidence that points to Pictish origins in north-east Scotland

Writing in the early 20th century, the celebrated author James Joyce noted that the Book of Kells—an illuminated manuscript ...
Smithsonian Magazine

This 1837 Harvard Speech by Ralph Waldo Emerson Inspired a Generation of American Writers to Declare Their Independence From ‘the Courtly Muses of Europe’

On Thursday, August 31, 1837, shortly after noon, 215 members of Harvard University’s prestigious Phi Beta Kappa Society ...