Bread (1918 film)
Only an excerpt, but so powerful! The rest remains lost... Imdb synopsis: A naïve country girl ventures to New York to become a star, but faces poverty and disillusionment when…
Spanish flu and early 20th-century expansion of a coronary heart disease-prone subpopulation
According to Stephen Jay Gould, "we have a strong preference for seeing trends as entities moving somewhere." However, trends may instead be the product of relative expansions and contractions of…
Episode 141: The Rise and Fall and Rise of Zines
Zines are DiY publications that grew to prominence in the early twentieth century scifi fan community, then morphed into a punk subculture in the 70s and 80s ... and now…
Public Domain Day 2024
On January 1, 2024, thousands of copyrighted works from 1928 will enter the US public domain, along with sound recordings from 1923. They will be free for all to copy,…
Twenty Thousand Hertz – Tune Tech
From electric guitars to samplers to drum machines and beyond, the music we love is only possible thanks to the technology used to create it. In many ways, the history…
W.E.B. Du Bois’ Brownies
The Brownies’ Book, a serial published in 1920 and 1921.
Where the 1960s “psychedelic” look came from
When you picture hippies, you probably picture bell bottoms, long hair, and LSD. You might also think of a very specific graphic design and illustration style, seen on concert posters…
Spitting Image on Palestine (1980s)
https://youtube.com/shorts/e76wclj4Ri8?si=MWWLXR4vSkbVV6dw
The good of the night: remembering DJ Teri Bristol
The good of the night: remembering DJ Teri Bristol