What does history look like? How do you draw time? From the most ancient images to the contemporary, the line has served as the central figure in the representation of time. The linear metaphor is ubiquitous in everyday visual representations of time - in almanacs, calendars, charts, and graphs of all sorts....

\"I Have Always loved the Holy Tongue\" – Isaac Casaubon, the Jews, and a Forgotten Chapter in Renaissance Scholarship...

The seclusion of islands has long made them ideal screens for our fantasies and terrors, choice locations for military and scientific assays, and perfect settings for escapes, incarcerations and battles for survival....