The Object
Episodes
Fast and Furious: The Car That Killed
13 May 2019
Contributed by Lukas
When World War II began, nothing seemed capable of slowing the Third Reich. Except a very fast, very unusual Czech automobile called the Tatra. A poig...
How to Stop an Assassin
09 Apr 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Long ago, when everyone but your dog was a potential assassin, you needed to protect yourself by any means necessary. Starting with poison-proof silve...
Lord of the Dance: An Indian Icon Goes Global
05 Mar 2019
Contributed by Lukas
In the 1920s, the sculptural image of Shiva Nataraja--the Hindu god Shiva as the cosmic dancer, ensuring the cycle of life--suddenly becomes a museum ...
X-ray Man and the Great Mummy Mystery
08 Jan 2019
Contributed by Lukas
An assistant curator decides to x-ray a 3,000-year-old mummy case, to learn if anything’s in there, and sees more than he bargained for. The interna...
Liminal Life: The Two Worlds of George Morrison
08 Jan 2019
Contributed by Lukas
When the frontier closed, the fate of Native Americans seemed sealed. But George Morrison, born into poverty near a reservation on Lake Superior, was ...
Talk to Me: The Woman Who Knew Everything
08 Jan 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Miriam McHugh Taney was a professional encyclopedia, lecturing on everything from the Italian Renaissance to early American furniture — a rare autho...
Fellowship of the Things
08 Jan 2019
Contributed by Lukas
There were wolves and caribou on the Minnesota frontier when John Scott Bradstreet arrived with his white suits and Far East fantasies of furniture, d...
Americana
08 Jan 2019
Contributed by Lukas
After founding General Mills, the food and flour giant, James Ford Bell turned to preserving the America he knew and loved. A vision that was fast dis...
Egyptomania
08 Jan 2019
Contributed by Lukas
She was wealthy, single, and always in the right place at the right time. But when Lily Place was in Egypt during the discovery of King Tut’s tomb, ...