May 16, 2022
New Look, Same Great Look
The history of humans being confounded by color photography.
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May 27, 2022
Straining the bounds of novelty; the dead of the past, present, and inevitable future; and objects left behind.
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Finding evidence of the lives of the enslaved along the Thames.
Read MoreMay 20, 2022
Feeding babies, the absence of information, and a crucial question about intergenerational justice.
Read MoreMay 18, 2022
On the women botanists who kickstarted the ecological restoration movement in America.
Read MoreMay 13, 2022
Speed limits, to-go containers, and very old moving pictures.
Read MoreMay 11, 2022
An accounting of racist murders in nineteenth-century America.
Read MoreMay 06, 2022
Weaponizing a history of discrimination, John Brown in fiction, and finding cave art.
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Brazilian blocos ignore ban on Carnival celebrations.
1576:
Italian plague patients ignore ban on dance parties.
2022:
YouTuber accused of crashing an airplane as a publicity stunt.
1896:
Passenger agent crashes two trains in a publicity stunt.