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,…
What Will Enter the Public Domain in 2024?
At the start of each year, on January 1st, a new crop of works enter the public domain and become free to enjoy, share, and reuse for any purpose. Due…
The People’s Graphic Design Archive
The People’s Graphic Design Archive is a crowd-sourced virtual archive of inclusive graphic design history. The Archive includes everything from finished projects to process, photos, correspondence, oral histories, anecdotes, articles,…
Stunning Codex Documenting Aztec Culture Now Fully Digitized
The 16th-century “Florentine Codex” offers a Mexican Indigenous perspective that is often missing from historical accounts of the period.
Looking for a lost photo of a badass hippie protester, @UCLA 1970
a dad tells a story about his friend at an anti war protest
The Man is There … in the Tape – Poetry Off the Shelf
Remembering Donald Hall and his advocacy for archival audio recordings of poets. {listen} I have a subscription to poetry magazine but my favorite thing about the poetry foundation is the…
The Medieval Tropics
In much of the tropics, insects, heat, and humidity meant that even if texts were written on palm leaves and animal skins, they had to be deliberately preserved or copied…
Private Mohammed Kahn: Civil War Soldier
It is rare to find records of Muslim Civil War soldiers in our holdings. So far, Jesse has only encountered two pensions, and historians know of only about 250 Muslim…