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The Pulitzer Prize(s) have been awarded annually since 1917 for excellence in journalism, arts, and letters. They are the legacy of the Hungarian-born American newspaper publisher Joseph Pulizter (1847-1911), and the 2015 winners were announced yesterday for what are now twenty-one separate categories. Although the Pulitzer medal has come to symbolize the program, the only winner that actually receives a medal is the organization that receives the award for “disinterested and meritorious” Public Service, which this year went to Charleston’s The Post and Courier newspaper. The other awardees receive a certificate and ten-thousand dollars, which must be some consolation.
The medal was designed by the noted American…
Today marks the 150th anniversary of Abraham Lincoln’s (1809-1865) assassination. He was shot by John Wilkes Booth at Ford’s Theatre during…
Library of Congress
The 150th anniversary of the surrender of General Robert E. Lee’s Confederate army at Appomattox was commemorated in New York…
The New York Public Library has launched a new website for its ample collection of digital images. There is a variety…
The Chinese Junk “Keying” (N. Currier, 1847) Hand-colored Lithograph | Met
The Keying was a three-masted Chinese trading junk that sailed from…
John Camden Hotten (1832-1873) was one of the liveliest characters in British letters during the mid-nineteenth century. A bibliophile and…
Back in 2012 as the American Numismatic was preparing its “Signs of Inflation” exhibition, we came to realize that the…
Self-Portrait (1887) Art Institute of Chicago
Vincent Willem van Gogh was born on this date in 1853 near Breda in the…
Last evening was the opening for a new exhibition called “When the Curtain Never Comes Down” at the American Folk…
With close to a million objects in the American Numismatic Society’s collections, the curatorial team occasionally comes across items that…
This post is part of an ongoing series that seeks to answer your questions about our collections. If there’s something you would…
Following on my post last week about the campaign to replace Andrew Jackson on the twenty-dollar bill, Gail Collins had a…