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The Magic of Estate Sales

These collections of everyday objects are clues to strangers’ daily lives.

by Ann Friedman via Curbed on May 1, 2019

Douglas Engelbart wearing an earpiece, sitting at a computer, in 1968.

The Future, Revisited: “The Mother of All Demos” at 50

How the ’60s counterculture gave birth to personal computers and the vast tech industry that builds and sells them.

by Andy Horowitz via Los Angeles Review of Books on December 8, 2018

Is History Being Too Kind to George H.W. Bush?

The 41st president put self-interest over principle time and time again.

by David Greenberg via Politico Magazine on December 1, 2018

The White Rabbit and His Colorful Tricks

Breakfast cereal, dietary purity, and race.

by Catherine Keyser via Cabinet on November 16, 2018

Who's the Boss?

When conductor and soloist clash, a concerto performance can turn into a contest of wills.

by Sudip Bose via The American Scholar on July 26, 2018

Photographs of Oscar Wilde and Walt Whitman.

When Wilde Met Whitman

As he told a friend years later, "the kiss of Walt Whitman is still on my lips."

by Michèle Mendelssohn via Literary Hub on July 16, 2018

Desk calendar illustrated by its owner.

A Disgruntled Federal Employee's 1980s Desk Calendar

A nameless Cold Warrior grew frustrated in his Defense Department job, and poured out his feelings in an unusual way.

by Ted Widmer via The Paris Review on June 13, 2018

Why Do People Sign Yearbooks?

Commemorative class books evolved from practical notebooks into collections of hair clippings, two-line rhymes, and summer wishes.

by Jennifer Billock via The Atlantic on June 3, 2018

William Randolph Hearst for President

Another news cycle, another media mogul stirring up electoral buzz.

by Jonathan Zimmerman via Lapham’s Quarterly on January 22, 2018

Bob Dylan and The Band performing on stage

The Brotherhood of Rock

The story of how The Band, in Robbie Robertson's words, "acted out an ideal of democracy and equality."

by Greil Marcus via New York Review of Books on March 2, 2017

When Americans Thought Hair Was a Window Into the Soul

Christian, criminal or cowardly? People once thought your hair could hold the answer.

by Sarah Gold McBride via The Conversation on April 20, 2016

A white muscular man flexes confidently while sitting on a stool.

Nose Knows Best

Nasology was a 19th century pseudoscience which claimed to explain personality traits based on the shape of a person’s nose.

via BackStory on July 10, 2015

Family tree

Your Family: Past, Present, and Future

The past, present, and future of your family tree are all far more fascinating than you realize.

by Tim Urban via Wait But Why on January 28, 2014

Charlie Chaplin as a young man, circa 1916

Charlie Chaplin Invents Himself

The tramp picks up his bowler hat and cane for the first time.

by Charlie Chaplin via Lapham’s Quarterly on September 1, 1964

Still from “The Rejected,” a 1961 documentary about homosexuals. Hal Call (at right), president of the Mattachine Society and Don Lucas, Mattachine’s executive secretary. Credit: San Francisco Bay Area Television Archive

The Homosexual in Our Society

This 1958 interview is the earliest known radio recording to overtly discuss homosexuality.

by Blanche M. Baker, KPFA, Elsa Knight Thompson, Harold Leland Call, Leah Gailey via American Archive of Public Broadcasting on November 24, 1958

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