Eleanor Roosevelt

Five Things You Had to See Online This Week

March 24, 2018Arts, Culture & Media

An epic movie phone tree, Eleanor Roosevelt’s booty call, the unseen power of grammar, an otherworldly Elton John cover, and a Rottweiler’s self-evaluation win the internet this week.

This Russian woman sniper, Lyudmila Pavlichenko, who has killed by her accurate shooting the magnificent total of 300 Germans before Sevastopol.

The life and myths of Lyudmila Pavlichenko, Soviet Russia’s deadliest sniper

March 9, 2018Culture

‘Studio 360: Marian Anderson at the Lincoln Memorial’

August 15, 2013

Reinventing the Role of First Lady in France

August 15, 2013Global Politics

The Documents that Define America

August 15, 2013

Gore Vidal

August 14, 2013Arts, Culture & Media

If anyone’s life is worth recounting, it’s Gore Vidal’s. The celebrated writer not only made his mark on literature over the past six decades, he also had a front row seat to history. His father romanced Amelia Earhart; he feuded with Eleanor Roosevelt and William F. Buckley among many others; and he went shooting with […]

Living up to human rights ideals

August 14, 2013Conflict & Justice

Dignitaries gathered in Paris today to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the signing of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. The World’s Jeb Sharp takes us back to its inception.