Table of Contents

2013
One Portrait, Three Institutions: Anders Zorn’s Portrait of William Amory Gardner
The Not-So-Shallow Waves of Cold War Cultural Diplomacy
“Going Native”: The Unusual Case of George Cram Cook
Revisiting George Cram Cook and Other Delphic Surprises
Barbarians at the Gate
Barbarians at the Gate: Comments on Comments
The Modern Greek Exam, “Professor Blank’s” Method, and Other Stories from the 1930s
Le Noir et le Bleu: An Exhibit about the Mediterranean in Marseilles
An Archival Paradox, the Expédition de Morée, and a Mysterious Love Affair
“An Odd Christmas” or the “Christmasless Year of 1923” in Greece

2014
Glass “Eye Candy”: A Decorated Window at the American School of Classical Studies at Athens
“My heart is beating…”: February 13, 1923
Two Academics “Ruin” the Spirit of Valentine’s Day: A Response to “My heart is beating.”
Letters From a New Home: Early 20th Century Athens Through the Eyes of Zillah Dinsmoor
“I Once was Lost but Now I’m Found”: The Search for Missing Archives, Marion Rawson, and the Excavations of the Palace of Nestor at Pylos
“A Greek Author Travels to the Country of the New Myth”: The Voyage of Elias Venezis to America in 1949
That Unspeakable Stoa
“To deaccession, or not to deaccession?” Paul Manship’s Actaeon and the American School of Classical Studies at Athens
On the Trail of a Greek Bourgeoisie Clad in Traditional Garb
“All Aboard”: Cruising the Aegean in 1923
The Pride of Amphipolis
Unbalanced Academics, Scribblers, and an “Odd Christmas”
The American Dream to Excavate Delphi or How the Oracle Vexed the Americans (1879-1891)
A Preamble to the Nazi Holocaust in Greece: Two Micro-Histories from the American School of Classical Studies at Athens
“So very far away, but maybe it’s only yesterday”: Greece in Crisis, 1964, 2014

2015
Grèce en vogue: A New Wave of American Philhellenism in the 1920s
A Mycenaean “Matter of Fact”: Part I, Joe Alsop Reports on the Greek Bronze Age
A Mycenaean “Matter of Fact”: Part II, Joe Alsop’s Greek Bronze Age Archive at the University of Cincinnati Of Job Security, Personal Dignity, and Efficiency Wages: ASCSA Trustee Fred Crawford and his Corporate Philosophy
Schliemann of Troy: The Story of a Linguistic Genius
Archives from the Trash: The Multidimensional Annie Smith Peck—Mountaineer, Suffragette, Classicist Henry Miller’s Timeless Greece through the Drawings of Anne Poor
1 July 2015: Down the Rabbit-Hole
“All Americans Must Be Trojans at Heart”: A Volunteer at Assos in 1881 Meets Heinrich Schliemann
EUPHORIA
Living Like Kings: When the Palace of Prince George Was the Annex of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens
EUZONES AND POETRY: JAMES MERRILL, GREEK LOVE, AND THE MAKING OF A PULITZER-PRIZE WINNER
Tales of Olynthus: Spoken and Unspoken
Food and Travel: The Slow Road to Madhur Jaffrey’s Indian and Cretan Kitchen
The End of the Quartet: The Day the Music Stopped at Ploutarchou 9
“This Horrible Crime Will Have to be Paid For”: The Sinking of the LUSITANIA
Athens 1918: “In Every Way a Much More Attractive City than Rome”

2016
Anna Apostolaki: A Forgotten Pioneer of Women’s Emancipation in Greece
“The Best Laid Plans… Often Go Awry”: A Tale of Two Museums
On Communism and Hellenism: An Archaeologist’s Perspective
Clash of the Titans: The Controversy Behind Loring Hall
Dorothy Burr Thompson’s Love for the Spirit of the Primitive
Skyromania? American Archaeologists in 1930s Skyros
“Dollars and Dreams”: American Archaeologists on the Hunt for Greek American Money in Chicago
Gertrude Smith: A Classic American Philhellene
Communism In and Out of Fashion: The American School of Classical Studies at Athens and the Cold War
The Bohemian Past of Madame Gennadius
Who Went to Schliemann’s Wedding?
The Man from Damascus, the Good Wife, and Baby Solon: R.I.P. at the American School of Classical Studies at Athens

2017
Expat Feasts in Athens on the Eve of the Balkan Wars
The Spirit of St. Louis Lives in Athens, Greece
Athens at the Turn of the Century: A Sentimental Capital and a Resort of Scholars
Greece 1935-1938: Involuntary Testimonies
Imagining and Reimagining Greece
Dollies and Doilies: Priscilla Capps Hill and the Refugee Crisis in Athens, 1922-1941
An African American Pioneer in Greece: John Wesley Gilbert and the American School of Classical Studies at Athens, 1890-1891.
Grace Macurdy of Vassar College: Scholar, Teacher, and Proto-Feminist
The Grecian Landscapes of Anna Richards Brewster
FULBRIGHTING IN POST-WW II GREECE (1952-1953)
“If a Jesuit should prove not to know Latin we’d better shut our doors!”: Catholic Clergy at the ASCSA, Pt. I

2018
Archaeological Hikes and Accidental Discoveries
The Magnificent Mayer House: No Such a Thing as a Free Gift
“Anything to restrain the reverend father”: Catholic Clergy at the ASCSA, Pt. II
The Riding Goddess of Mycenae
Phantom Threads of Mothers and Sons
Blending Two Cultures: The Gennadius Library Dedication in 1926
Hetty Goldman: The Potentate of American Archaeology in Greece
Rediscovering the American Pioneer Spirit in Greece, 1928: The Letters of Robert Stroock
Touring the Balkans with the Ladies of Ploutarchou 9
“They returned… but stay I did”: Doreen Canaday’s Experience of Interwar Greece
Connecting the Dots: Peripheral Figures in the History of the American School of Classical Studies. The Case of R. S. Darbishire
“The haughty arrogance of the Nordic people”: A Scandal in the German Colony of Athens on the 20th of April 1935.

2019
Professors to the Rescue: Americans in the Aegean at the End of the Great War, 1918-1919
The Mystery Artist: In Search of François Perilla
Schliemann’s Culinary Adventures in Italy
On Finding Inspiration in Small Things: The Story of a Pencil Portrait
To Know One’s Country as a Foreign Land
Francis H. Bacon: Bearer of Precious Gifts from the Dardanelles
Exploring the Relationship of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens with the Greek Omogeneia in the United States in the 1940s
To Live Alone and Like It: Women and the American School of Classical Studies at Athens Between the Wars
Mycenaean Mementos and the Govs: The Materiality of the Wace-Blegen Friendship
How Modern Greek Came to America
Orientations in Sunlight: With Durrell in Rhodes
“The Four in Crete”: A Travel Book Leads to an Archival Adventure

2020
From ‘Warriors for the Fatherland’ to ‘Politics of Volunteerism’: Challenging the Institutional Habitus of American Archaeology in Greece
An Unconventional Union: “Mr. and Mrs. George Kosmopoulos”
Forgotten Friend of Skyros: Hazel Dorothy Hansen (Part I)
Forgotten Friend of Skyros: Hazel D. Hansen (Part II)
Is this Julia Ward Howe?
The Agora Benches
On the Trail of the “German Model”: ASCSA and DAI, 1881-1918
Mr. and Mrs. Cincinnatus in Athens, Thessaloniki, and Spetses
“Mr. Lo”: The First Chinese Student at the American School of Classical Studies at Athens, 1933
“Who Doesn’t Belong Anywhere, Has a Chance Everywhere”: The Formative Years of Emilie Haspels in Greece
A PORTRAIT OF A (PAGAN) LADY: MABEL GORDON DUNLAP

2021
THE LIFE AND TIMES OF A DILETTANTE: RALPH HENRY BREWSTER
Where There’s Smoke There’s Fire: De Waele’s Story
Financing the Reconstruction of the Stoa of Attalos
The Transatlantic Voyage of a Greek Maiden
GREEKS THEY ARE CALLED THOSE WHO SHARE IN OUR EDUCATION
“Metropolitan Transportation”: Sardis, Colophon, and the Asia Minor Disaster of 1922
The Cretan Diaries of Colonel Émile-Honoré Destelle (1897-1898)
The Artemision Shipwreck: Sinking Into the ASCSA Archives
Of American Expat Thanksgivings in Greece

2022-2023
At Home with the Schliemanns: The “Iliou Melathron” as a Social Landmark
The Cretan Idyll of Harriet Boyd and Charles Henry Hawes
The Charioteer of Delphi in the Clutches of WW II
Recalling a Museum Theft
The Cretan Enigma
Mrs. Jarley’s Waxworks and a Jolly Jumble of Jests, Christmas 1903
The Forgotten Olympic Exhibition: Georg Alexander Mathéy’s Contribution to the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin
A Journey in the Mediterranean on the Eve of the Great War, 1914
Christmas in Athens in 1915
Brainerd P. Salmon: American Journalist (and Much More) and Friend of Greece
Disjecta Membra: The Personal Papers of Minnie Bunker

2024-2025
Becoming: Bert Hodge Hill, 1906-1910 (Part I)
Prevailing: Bert Hodge Hill (1910-1915) (Part II)
Do I Really Want to Be an Archaeologist?
Celebrating Christmas and New Year’s in Athens, 1895-96: From the Letters of Nellie Reed
The Island of Zeus Revisited
Sophia and Heinrich Schliemann: An Unusual Relationship (Pt. I)
Sophia and Heinrich Schliemann: An Unusual Relationship (Pt. II)