Articles by Anika Burgess

The pioneering women who faced jeers and discrimination to become doctors.

For 23 years he role-played in holiday letters to his children.

And here are the vintage images to prove it.

Thousands of priceless images, books, documents, and more are now at your fingertips.

From super moons to Saturn's rings to distant galaxies.

Masterpieces of memento mori.

Great gifts for the impossible-to-shop-for.

Worship at the altar of striking architecture.

“It may be a little irksome at first, but you’ll soon get used to it.”

One American photographer's inside look at the Soviet Union in the 1970s.

Under a microscope, even a toothbrush can be a work of art.

See pioneering mathematicians, giant wind tunnels powered by submarine engines, and hypersonic rocket models.

Stargazing through the ages.

Feel free to judge these books by their covers.

They're perfectly to scale, and all based on real cases.

One artist’s stark, brutalist, dystopian vision of the future.

A centuries-old practice with little place in the modern world.

Dress reformer, women's rights activist, and all-around pioneer.

A close-up look at what happens after the lamps go out.

A city's distinctive architectural heritage.

In the 1930s, park planning was pretty.

Inside the once-busy lodgings that have become modern ruins.

Librarians are amazing.

Trying to see the future and reckon with the past in the former Soviet state.