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Man dwarfed by the soaring stacks of timber inside the Seattle Cedar Lumber Manufacturing Company, 1939 (Life Picture Collection) – photograph taken by Alfred Eisenstaedt, who was born on this day (23 August) in 1898 in what was then West …
Learning about Laurel started with our love for Home Town & Ben & Erin Napier—but turned into one of my favorite blog series in a while, full of the worst & best of American history & community. I’d love y’all to check out the posts & shar…
53 years ago, on the 23rd of August 1973, Birgitta Lundblad, Elisabeth Oldgren, Kristin Enmark, and Sven Säfström were taken hostage at a bank in Stockholm. The hostage situation was covered by Swedish live television and would lead to the…
London was a great market for eels from the 15th C. onward. Many were imported by the Dutch, but not all. In the late 19th C. fishermen from the Norfolk Broads sold their eels in Billingsgate each fall, & the profits were enough to carry …
195 years ago, on the 21st of August 1831, Nat Turner led a rebellion of enslaved African Americans in which between 55 and 65 white people were killed. As Turner had been a preacher, new laws were enacted to prevent the education of Afric…
Ooo there's a webpage up for my little book Listening to #EarlyModern Travel Writing, and I see that expected publication is 6 October! Exciting! 🗃️ www.cambridge.org/core/element...
Two nuns in front of Matisse's 'The Dance' in the Museum of Modern Art in New York in 1964 – photograph by Henri Cartier-Bresson, who was born east of Paris on this day (22 August) in 1908 🗃️
1763 bill from Thomas Johnston for gilding the grasshopper weathervane on top of Boston’s Faneuil Hall. The grasshopper is still there today! 🗃️
It's just magical seeing QUEER ORIGINS in bookshops, especially the iconic Gay's the Word.✨ I've just signed some copies there — nab one while you can (there are also some soon-to-be-collector's-item bookmarks)! #books #booksky #booksho…
162 years ago, on the 22nd of August 1864, delegates from 22 countries met at Geneva city hall for the conference where the first Geneva Convention would be adopted. It would be signed by representatives of 12 states. #otd #history 🗃️
After much consideration, Historians at the Movies goes back to school this week w/ JENNIFER'S BODY We're talking female friendships, violence, revenge, & transformation! It should be a fun one as we all actually go back to classes! Join …
We've studied this looking back at the forced Mexican "Repatriations" during the Great Depression. Mass deportation did not help the unemployment rate and may have hurt it by decreasing economy activity. Lots of papers I could post but her…
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