An appreciation: Roland Jackson’s Scientific Advice to the Nineteenth-Century British State by William Thomas https://www.aip.org/history/jackson-scientific-advice Books about Science at PG: https://w…
The Encyclopedia of Women Philosophers: A New Web Site Presents the Contributions of Women Philosophers, from Ancient to Modern via @openculture https://www.openculture.com/2026/06/encyclopedia-of-wom…
📣 TOMORROW! 📣 There’s still time to join us for THE FIGHT FOR THE PUBLIC RECORD, a LIVE Future Knowledge #podcast conversation on one of the defining information challenges of our time. 📅 Tues, Jun 23…
How Is the Dalai Lama Chosen? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bbnzTzrSI-E The 14th Dalai Lama, Tenzin Gyatso #religion #history
Disappearing Scrapbooks The fate of Willa Cather’s archives, real and fictional. By Liz Cettina https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/willa-cather-archive-unl-cdrh-scrapbooks-letters-materiality/?utm_so…
43 of the Most Iconic Short Stories in the English Language From Washington Irving to Kristen Roupenian by Emily Temple https://lithub.com/43-of-the-most-iconic-short-stories-in-the-english-language/?…
Welcome to the Public Domain SUMMER (1930)! ☀️🌻🐝🌴 This 2nd entry in the seasonal Silly Symphonies cycle was released in January, but we've saved it to mark the #SummerSolstice. 😎 👀 Watch the full short…
🎉 HAPPY FATHER’S DAY 🎉 💙 Celebrate with a GifCities GifGram, filled with classic, sparkling, nostalgia-soaked GIFs from the early web. 🧢 Send it to someone special or create your own custom GIF greeti…
5 Pregnant Rulers Who Fearlessly Stormed Into Battle From legendary empresses to noblewomen who terrified the Vatican, these pregnant rulers donned armor, subdued riots, launched invasions, and forged…
Naming the Universe How the quick thinking of internationally minded astronomers avoided stamping the solar system with petty European rivalries by Stephen Case https://aeon.co/essays/how-gods-beat-as…
Scholar Claims Van Gogh Hid Secret Homage to Leonardo da Vinci’s ‘The Last Supper’ In His ‘Café Terrace at Night’ Did you know about his "Sacred Realism"? by Lorena Muñoz-Alonso (from the archives) ht…
Harriet Beecher Stowe Wrote a Work of Fiction That Seemed So Real That It Changed the History of the Country To fight against slavery, the author collected true stories then picked up a pen and distil…
Solved, Unsolved and Unsolvable: The Status of Hilbert’s 23 Problems in Mathematics More than a century after David Hilbert presented a list of 23 mathematical challenges to the 1900 International Con…
22-year-old Mozart’s handwritten notebook unearthed in ‘major discovery’ The notebook was confiscated during the French Revolution, and has now been found in Paris. https://www.classicfm.com/composers…
8 Women Composers Who Shaped the Musical World Discover eight women composers who have shaped the musical world and gave women in music a voice. by Andrew Olsen (from the archives) https://www.thecoll…
JUNETEENTH․com launched in 1996, helping share the history of June 19, 1865, and support celebrations across the United States and beyond. As awareness of Juneteenth grew, so did the site. The Wayback…
In recognition of #Juneteenth today, we’re sharing scans of General Order No. 3, the document that informed enslaved people in Texas that they were free on June 19, 1865, carrying out the Federal Gove…
The Atlas Behind the Revolution While George Washington struggled to obtain reliable maps, British readers could consult this remarkable 1776 atlas. By: April White https://daily.jstor.org/the-atlas-b…
🎩✂️ Public domain culture inspires new creations! For our recent screening 📽️ of MOROCCO (1930), artist Freya Morgan remixed imagery from the film into a delightful new work: Marlene Dietrich in "Morocc…
