Free speech matters. So does the ability to verify what's true. Without a stable historical record, accountability becomes harder, evidence disappears, and public debate suffers. Michael Menna and Lil…
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Free speech matters. So does the ability to verify what's true. Without a stable historical record, accountability becomes harder, evidence disappears, and public debate suffers. Michael Menna and Lil…
📚 Research can uncover stories that even experts never had the chance to find. 🌍 In this episode of the Future Knowledge #podcast special series #VanishingCulture, African folklorist Laura Gibbs expla…
19 Famous American Paintings Everyone Should Know Each of these 19 famous American paintings is iconic for its own reasons and showcases a vast range of styles, history, and artistic beauty. https://w…
@oldcoder Thanks for sharing! It seems she was sleeping under your photographic equipment.
The Secret Lives of Insects Can fruit flies have dialects? Can dung beetles navigate by the stars? Find surprising answers in this collection of stories about bugs and people. By: The Editors https://…
On the Duplicitous Heroine in Wilkie Collins’s No Name Is Magdalen Vanstone a Detective Using Her Acting Skills or, by Victorian Standards,... a Criminal? by Olivia Rutigliano https://lithub.com/on-th…
8 Famous Women Writers Who Wrote Under Male Pseudonyms Historically, female writers have faced barriers to publication and prejudicial attitudes, leading some to adopt male pseudonyms. https://www.the…
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An Integral Part of the Story: A Short History of Short Fiction by American Women Arielle Zibrak Explores the Diverse Literary Landscape of 19th- and Early 20th-Century Female Writers in the United St…
The savage bites back Rooted in Brazilian modernism, anthropophagy devours and transforms culture, subverting colonial fears of cannibalism by Sofia Cándano https://aeon.co/essays/anthropophagy-art-fl…
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🗣️ Myths & folklore are powerful because they evolve. Understanding those changes depends on preserving the record. 🌍 In this episode of the Future Knowledge podcast special series #VanishingCulture, A…
How Jane Austen Blew a Hole Through the Romance Genre She Created Catherine Cliff on Austen‘s Third Model of Spinsterhood: Being a Self-Made Woman https://lithub.com/how-jane-austen-blew-a-hole-throug…
Who Owns Women Detectives? Now that Miss Marple and Nancy Drew’s early novels are entering the public domain, what comes next for them? By Ellen O’Connell Whittet https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/w…
Homer Haunted, by Henry Power Splendid literary criticism, dull politics by Henry Oliver https://www.commonreader.co.uk/p/homer-haunted-by-henry-power The Iliad by Homer at PG: https://www.gutenberg.o…
🎬 That's a wrap on our 2026 Public Domain Film Remix Contest retrospective! Over the past months, we’ve celebrated every winner, honorable mention, and finalist. To close things out, here’s a bonus re…
📚 Culture doesn’t have to be censored to disappear. 🕳️ Sometimes all it takes is an expired license. 📼💿 In THE POLITICAL THREATS OF VANISHING CULTURE AND THE NEED TO PROTECT OUR FUTURE MEMORY, Michael …
The man whose codebreaking may have helped to shorten the Second World War by two years met a grim reward: in 1952 Alan Turing was convicted simply for being gay and chemically castrated; a royal pard…
Choice Notes on History from Notes and Queries (1858) https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/choice-notes-from-notes-and-queries/ Issues of the journal "Notes and Queries" at PG: https://www.gutenb…
Who was Homer, author of the Odyssey? by Tom Hercules Davies https://theconversation.com/who-was-homer-author-of-the-odyssey-287969 The Odyssey by Homer at PG: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1727 He…