Andrew Ross Sorkin's "1929" is already a bestseller. Many who read this book will look for parallels to today.

After spending the Roaring Twenties partying in bohemian Paris, Berenice Abbott returned to New York City in 1929 on a mission. Armed with the archive of her mentor Eugène Atget and a drive to ...

The playwright Gerhart Hauptmann (1862-1946) wafts like a ghost through the annals of early-twentieth-century opera. Alban Berg thought seriously of making an adaptation of Hauptmann’s play “And Pippa ...

THERE has been a great deal of jesting about the “Lost Dauphin,” and, for all we are able to swear to, the Rev. Eleazar Williams may have been just the middle nineteenth-century version of the joke.

Far above the rooftops of Manhattan on October 23, 1929, a crew of construction workers perched themselves around one of the highest human-made peaks in the world. Rumors had swirled that they were ...