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Reads tagged with “history”

Thoreau on Friendship, Consciousness, and Seeing Kinship Across Our Creaturely Differences
Thoreau on Friendship, Consciousness, and Seeing Kinship Across Our Creaturely Differences

“A man [is] commonly a locked-up chest to us, to open whom, unless we have the key of sympathy, will make our hearts bleed.”

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A Brief Visual History of Space and Astronomy in 250 Milestones
A Brief Visual History of Space and Astronomy in 250 Milestones

From the Big Bang to the end of time, or what a pioneering female astronomer has to do with Sagan’s petty nemeses.

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BBC’s The Beauty of Books: Penguin, Orwell, and the Paperback Cover Design Revolution
BBC’s The Beauty of Books: Penguin, Orwell, and the Paperback Cover Design Revolution

“The book is still the most intelligent and interactive data retrieval system which has been devised.”

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A Visual History of Magic
A Visual History of Magic

What the art of levitation has to do with creative debt and the legacy of vintage graphic design.

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Down with DOMA: Edith Windsor’s Historic Call with President Obama, Illustrated by Debbie Millman
Down with DOMA: Edith Windsor’s Historic Call with President Obama, Illustrated by Debbie Millman

“Hello, who am I talking to?”

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Edward Gorey’s Vintage Book Covers for Literary Classics
Edward Gorey’s Vintage Book Covers for Literary Classics

Melville, Conrad, Colette, Chekhov, Chaucer, Gogol, Kafka, Shaw, Pushkin, and more.

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Mme. Curie Is Dead; Martyr to Science: The New York Times’ Stirring Obituary for Marie Curie
Mme. Curie Is Dead; Martyr to Science: The New York Times’ Stirring Obituary for Marie Curie

“Few persons contributed more to the general welfare of mankind and to the advancement of science than the modest, self-effacing woman whom the world knew as Mme. Curie.”

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Walt Whitman Reads “America”: The Only Surviving Recording of the Beloved Poet’s Voice
Walt Whitman Reads “America”: The Only Surviving Recording of the Beloved Poet’s Voice

36 seconds of timeliness from a rare wax-cylinder capsule of timelessness.

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Kids on Gender Politics: Amusing and Poignant Responses from Children in the 1970s-1980s
Kids on Gender Politics: Amusing and Poignant Responses from Children in the 1970s-1980s

Minors counter major hegemony with disarming clarity.

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After Stonewall: The First-Ever Pride Parades, In Vintage Photos
After Stonewall: The First-Ever Pride Parades, In Vintage Photos

“There were no openly gay policemen, public school teachers, doctors, or lawyers.”

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