Without leaving Manhattan, Kazin read his way into “lonely small towns, prairie villages, isolated colleges, dusty law offices, national magazines, and provincial ‘academies’ where no one suspected that the obedient-looking young reporters, law cl
visual survey of Central Asia from the perspective of the Russian imperial government that took control of the area in the 1850s and 1860s (about 1,200 photographs, with some architectural plans, watercolor drawings, and maps)