Two major events took place this past week — the summer solstice and the second birthday of our granddaughter, Lyla. What better way to celebrate both than to go for a walk in the park with Millie, ...

"The price is low, but as she has no need of it, I fear she will find it dear," wrote John C. Calhoun of his mother-in-law's $10,000 purchase of Dumbarton Oaks in 1822. At that time, twenty-one years ...

Harvard History of Art and Architecture professor Thomas B. F. Cummins has been named the new director of Dumbarton Oaks, a Harvard-owned research institution in Washington, D.C., according to a ...

You may view the garden at Dumbarton Oaks as a fine historic landscape. I think of it more as an oasis for the mind. Its quiet, shady spaces and highly crafted neoclassical character offer an ...

Tomos Llywelyn Evans giving a talk on his research at Augustine University, Ilara-Epe, Nigeria. Image credit: Augustine University. 6th year Ph.D. candidate Tomos Llywelyn Evans was recently awarded ...

The once-delayed, well-advertised World Security Conference began this week at stately Dumbarton Oaks, a magnificent 16-acre estate set like a jewel in Washington’s Georgetown. The 39 delegates, none ...