After centuries of trying, we’ve yet to arrive at a perfect way to map colour by Alessandro Roussel https://aeon.co/videos/after-centuries-of-trying-weve-yet-to-arrive-at-a-perfect-way-to-map-colour?u…
The Stormy Romance of Frédéric Chopin and George Sand The decade-long relationship between the composer Chopin and the author Sand, though unlikely, was a testament to the Romantic belief in the virtu…
During the Revolution, American Women Fought for Freedom, Spied on the British, Cared for the Sick and Fell in Love. A New Exhibition Reveals Their Rich Wartime Stories by Meilan Solly https://www.smi…
The Divine Comedy: How Dante Provided A New World Theory The Divine Comedy is an Italian narrative poem by Dante Alighieri, begun c. 1308 and completed around 1321, shortly before the author's death. …
Out From the Shadows: On Rediscovering Mary Shelley’s Half-Sister, Fanny Imlay Jupiter Jones Explores the Life of a Remarkable Woman Forgotten by History https://lithub.com/out-from-the-shadows-on-red…
Solving Feynman’s Formula for Eating Well, Parking Your Car, and Finding a Mate The 50-year mystery suggests humans may be more rational than we thought By Kristen French https://nautil.us/solving-fey…
📰 As some publishers & news organizations block the Wayback Machine from archiving journalism, Fight for the Future is urging action to prevent them from putting the future of the public record at ris…
The Emotional Pains That Shaped Van Gogh’s Art and How to See Them on the Canvas From dark and depressing tones to vibrant canvases saturated with color, Van Gogh’s art acts as a window into his emoti…
Unseen Edith Wharton short story is published more than a century later The Men Who Saved the World, the Pulitzer winner’s lost manuscript found in Yale archives, appears in Strand magazine by Richard…
Preventing the Wayback Machine from saving the news puts today’s journalism at risk of disappearing from history. 📝 Help push back. Sign the open letter calling on publishers to stop blocking web arch…
What happens when public datasets disappear? 🕳️ Scientific data, public health information, and environmental research are increasingly vulnerable to loss, alteration, or removal. 🎙️ THE FIGHT FOR THE P…
🧵1️⃣/2️⃣ The Internet Archive helped solve a 100-year-old conservation mystery. Researchers discovered why some bowhead whale populations are recovering today from centuries of commercial whaling by using…
Adding Wimsey to My Life How I fell in love with a fictional detective https://theamericanscholar.org/adding-wimsey-to-my-life/ Books by Dorothy L. Sayers at PG: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/autho…
Librarians on Horseback The New Deal project that preserved Kentucky’s recipes By Kirsten Chervenak https://oxfordamerican.org/magazine/issue-132-spring-2026/librarians-on-horseback?utm_source=Klaviyo…
5 literary classics that grapple with the void of nihilism From mysterious villages to absurdism at the gallows, these books explore the origins, consequences, and possible responses to nihilism. by S…
Many publishers rely on archived journalism for accountability and research, yet some are blocking the Wayback Machine from preserving it! Fight for the Future highlights this growing contradiction an…
🎉 Welcome to the Public Domain, THEY LEARNED ABOUT WOMEN (1930) ⚾🎶 Mashing up baseball, musicals, and radio, this pre-Code film follows two star ballplayers whose friendship is tested by fame, romance…
The Smithsonian Just Uploaded 1,000 Archival Images To Unsplash for Public Use By Emma Taggart https://mymodernmet.com/smithsonian-unsplash/ #Art #Culture
This Week in Literary History: Carson McCullers’s The Heart is a Lonely Hunter is Published - A Classic is Born On June 4, 1940, the day her debut novel The Heart is a Lonely Hunter was published, 23-…
Zena Hitz: Gulliver's Travels and the Failures of Human Understanding by Henry Oliver https://www.commonreader.co.uk/p/zena-hitz-gullivers-travels-and-the Gulliver's Travels at PG: https://www.gutenbe…
