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Painting of Woody Guthrie smoking a cigarette while playing a guitar.

Woody Guthrie: Folk Hero

Guthrie challenged the commercial aesthetic of the pre-rock era through a performance style that was almost combatively anti-musical.

by David Hajdu via The New Yorker on March 21, 2004

Caricature of Christopher Columbus

The Lost Mariner

The self-confidence that kept Columbus going was his undoing.

by Elizabeth Kolbert via The New Yorker on October 6, 2002

1491

Before it became the New World, the Western Hemisphere was an altogether more salubrious place to live at the time than, say, Europe.

by Charles C. Mann via The Atlantic on March 1, 2002

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