What’s more bizarre about this photo – that the Ku Klux Klan appears, from the caption, to be staging a performance of the proto-feminist, erosion-of-Southern-values …
A photo taken 113 years ago today, of Oberlin’s graduating class of 1898. Oberlin, which began admitting women only four years after it was founded in …
Taken 147 years ago today, this photo shows Union soldiers–both black and white–posing in front of Confederate General Robert E. Lee’s mansion in Arlington. The …
Founded by Joseph Medill Patterson in 1919, the publication is the first U.S. daily printed in tabloid form. It has won ten Pulitzer Prizes. Photo Courtesy …
Born as Eric Arthur Blair, George Orwell changed his name in 1933. Some say he adopted the pen name because he was worried that his “lower-upper-middle” …
The Siamese Revolution of 1932 was a bloodless revolution that transformed the government in Siam from an absolute to a constitutional monarchy. King Prajadhipok in …
Super Mario 64 was the console’s best selling game and The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time is frequently regarded as the greatest game of …
Lord Mansfield, Chief Justice of the Court of the King’s Bench, held that slavery was unlawful in England in 1772. The decision led directly to …
The Battle of Okinawa was one of the longest and bloodiest battles of World War II. Just weeks after the end of the assault, the …
Jaws is widely regarded as one of the greatest films of all time, and the very first “summer blockbuster.” Photo Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons.
Monthly Archives: June 2011