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Vincent Scully

The Shingle Style Today: Or the Historian’s Revenge

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The Trubek and Wislocki Houses, 1970, Nantucket, Massachusetts, by Denise Scott-Brown and Robert Venturi.

The Historian’s Revenge

The rise and fall of the Shingle Style ideal.

by Witold Rybczynski via The Hedgehog Review on November 1, 2023

Washington Monument and Reflecting Pool from Lincoln Memorial.

The Bedrock of Patriotism

David McCullough helps readers understand why it's worth remembering the past.

by Richard Delahide Ferrier via Law & Liberty on February 13, 2026

Photograph of Robert Moses on a background collage of a blueprint and a photo of passengers waiting in Penn Station.

Robert Moses Helped Ruin Penn Station. He'd Have Made it Easier to Fix, Too.

Preservationists like Jane Jacobs are urbanist heroes. But their rules can stifle.

by Samuel Goldman via The Week on December 10, 2021

Hank Aaron.

What Hank Aaron Told Me

When I spoke with my boyhood hero 25 years after his famous home run, I learned why he’d kept going through the death threats and the hate.

by Sandy Tolan via The Atlantic on January 25, 2021

Atticus Finch and children at the diningroom table in the film "To Kill a Mockingbird."

Prop and Property

The house in American cinema, from the plantation to Chavez Ravine.

by John David Rhodes via Places Journal on December 1, 2017

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