Photographs of wild flowers taken by photographers from a Christian utopian community that settled in East Jerusalem at the turn of the 20th century ..read more

A 650-page philological foray into ancient sexuality, surprisingly light on STDs ..read more

A “part-talkie” that offers a simple solution to modern urban isolation: love ..read more

The sight of a skeletal corpse rarely inspires a rollicking jig. Yet for more than half a millennium, the dance of death in European visual art has imagined a tango between the quick and the dead. Allison C. Meier tracks the motif’s evolution across history, discovering how — through times of disease, war, and economic inequality — printmaking offered a means to both critique social ills and reflect upon new forms of human devastation ..read more

The only fully illustrated herbal from the incunabula period of German history ..read more

Macrophotographs of the creatures below our feet, magnified to a wondrous degree by David and Marian Fairchild ..read more

A 17th-century treatise on women’s right to education, written by an exceptional polyglot ..read more

An intriguing photograph taken during Thomas Eakins’ studies of animal locomotion ..read more

A pre-history of the sentence diagrams that were once commonplace in the American classroom ..read more

Ethereal illustrations for a book that charts the voices of Balzac, Zola, Flaubert, and other illustrious writers and thinkers from beyond the grave ..read more