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Milton Bradley surrounded by colorful design

The Meaning of Life

What Milton Bradley started.

by Jill Lepore via The New Yorker on May 14, 2007

Screen capture of Fred Rogers at a desk with microphones, testifying before the Senate Subcommittee on Communications.

Fred Rogers Testifies Before the Senate Subcommittee on Communications

The young Mr. Rogers brings down the house in his 1969 effort to save public broadcasting from the chopping block.

by U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, & Transportation via YouTube on May 1, 1969

Person holding a blonde American Girl doll and American Girl bag

All Dolled Up

How American Girl transformed the doll world—and why millennials love it so.

by Jayne Ross via The American Scholar on November 30, 2023

Dell O'Dell performing a magic act for live tv with children watching.

Dell O'Dell's Trailblazing Magic Show Cast a Spell on Early Television Audiences

Rare footage of the woman magician's act captures her magnetic stage presence and range of tricks.

by Vanessa Armstrong via Smithsonian on October 24, 2023

Drawing from "Little Nemo in Slumberland" by Winsor McCay

The Cutting-Edge Cartoons of Winsor McCay

A prolific, meticulous artist, McCay created characters and storyscapes that inspired generations of cartoonists and animators.

by Betsy Golden Kellem via JSTOR Daily on July 26, 2023

Uncle Tom’s Cabin jigsaw puzzle.

Uncle Tom’s Cabin, The Jigsaw Puzzle: Jumbling the Pieces of Stowe’s Story

Understanding puzzles as agents of disorder runs counter to a common interpretation that associates puzzles with the quest for order.

by Patricia Jane Roylance via Commonplace on January 31, 2023

Chuck Norris as Sergeant Cordell Walker in Walker: Texas Ranger.

Walkers and Lone Rangers: How Pop Culture Shaped the Texas Rangers Mythology

Texas’s elite police force has long played the hero in film and television, although the reality is far more complex.

by Sean O'Neal via Texas Monthly on November 16, 2022

A close up black and white image of a clown face showing a sinister smile.

The Creepy Clown Emerged from the Crass and Bawdy Circuses of the 19th Century

Today’s creepy clowns are not a divergence from tradition, but a return to it.

by Madeline Steiner via The Conversation on October 25, 2022

Comic of a boy inside an atom structure while a man looks on.

The Surprising History of the Comic Book

Since their initial popularity during World War II, comic books have always been a medium for American counterculture and for nativism and empire.

by J. Hoberman via The Nation on January 25, 2022

Illustration of Louise Fitzhugh smiling and holding journal.

The Tragic Misfit Behind “Harriet the Spy”

The girl sleuth, now the star of a TV show, has been eased into the canon. In the process, she’s shed the politics that motivated her creation.

by Rebecca Panovka via The New Yorker on December 9, 2021

The Mean Girls Game for DS

Meet the YouTubers Determined to Find Lost Media

New media meets old.

by Brendan Bell via The Verge on September 16, 2021

Animated scene from One Hundred and One Dalmatians

How 'One Hundred and One Dalmatians' Saved Disney

Sixty years ago, the company modernized animation when it used Xerox technology on the classic film.

by Gia Yetikyel via Smithsonian on June 2, 2021

A group of librarians wearing masks during the 1918 Flu Pandemic.

Libraries and Pandemics: Past and Present

The 1918 influenza pandemic had a profound impact on how librarians do their work, transforming libraries into centers of community care.

by Julia Skinner via JSTOR Daily on April 14, 2021

Potato Head family

Toys Are Ditching Genders for the Same Reason They First Took Them On

Why the Potato Heads are the latest toys becoming more inclusive.

by Paul Ringel via Made By History on March 2, 2021

A still from "It's a Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown" of two children in a pumpkin patch at night.

How the Great Pumpkin Became Great

The origins of Linus's pumpkin deity, who "rises out of the pumpkin patch and flies through the air and brings toys to all the children in the world."

by Cindy Ott, Jacqueline Mansky via JSTOR Daily on October 21, 2019

Poster for minstrelsy cake walk

The Faces of Racism

A history of blackface and minstrelsy in American culture.

via BackStory on February 8, 2019

How Does a Film Become Lost?

What happens when “lost” films and television shows become found once again—and what that does to the work’s cultural legacy.

by Andrew Egan via Tedium on October 11, 2018

Illustration of Howard Thurston, gazing into a skull while surrounded by supernatural creatures

Howard Thurston, the Magician Who Disappeared

Overshadowed by more famous contemporaries, the visionary behind “The Wonder Show of the Universe” left a far-reaching legacy.

by Eliza McGraw via Smithsonian on August 9, 2018

Pony Express postage stamp depicting man riding horse

You've Got Mail

The rise and fall of the Post Office from Tocqueville to Fred Rogers.

via BackStory on December 7, 2012

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