Cutting Open the World

Cutting Open the World

As an architectural student at Yale, Maya Lin traveled with a small group of other students to Washington, D.C., to get a firsthand look at the proposed site for a national monument dedicated to the Vietnam War. They were students in a senior seminar on funereal...
The Problem We All (Still) Live With

The Problem We All (Still) Live With

When the naiveté of the 1950s gave way to the clamoring of change in the ’60s, even the stodgy traditionalist Norman Rockwell grew. For decades, Rockwell painted what we considered our greatest American values. But in the early 1960s, he began exploring our American...