📖 Some folktales are preserved almost word for word. 🗣️ Others adapt to the needs of the moment, helping communities make sense of the present. 🌍 In this episode of the Future Knowledge podcast special…
The Scandal of the Stanford White Murder That Shook New York Love, jealousy, and revenge collided at the turn of the century with the murder of Stanford White. https://www.thecollector.com/stanford-wh…
Charles Brockden Brown Declares Independence Ed Simon explores Charles Brockden Brown’s Wieland; or, The Transformation: An American Tale, often considered the first American Gothic novel. By Ed Simon…
The Letters of Heloise: Love, Learning, and Life as a Medieval Woman Heloise’s letters reveal a medieval woman caught between enduring love, religious duty, and the expectations of her age. Andrea Mar…
📅 It seems like only yesterday… 🎞️ Back in January, NPR covered the 2026 Public Domain Film Remix Contest as filmmakers around the world transformed newly public domain works from 1930 into fresh creat…
🌐 Websites vanish. 📰 News archives go offline. 📚 Textbooks are withdrawn. 🏛️ Government reports are deleted. What happens when the historical record starts disappearing? The Internet Archive and the Ou…
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Elizabeth Van Lew’s Heroic Career As A Civil War Spy By Gina Dimuro Perhaps the Union's most important spy, Elizabeth Van Lew freed prisoners and passed along crucial information gathered at the Confe…
Pixel: a biography An exact mathematical concept, pixels are the elementary particles of pictures, based on a subtle unpacking of infinity By Alvy Ray Smith, Edited byNigel Warburton https://aeon.co/e…
‘I felt Holden was talking to me alone’: The Catcher in the Rye at 75 JD Salinger’s wry, subversive classic inspired novelist Joseph O’Connor to be a writer. He reflects on why this story of a disaffe…
This Week in Literary History: O. Henry is Released from Prison “If he had simply gone back to Austin when he was summoned to stand trial, he would have been acquitted.” https://lithub.com/this-week-i…
The world’s first influencers were French and they emerged after the Revolution by Emma Schwak Influencer culture is not a thing of the past, and yet the movers and shakers of post-revolutionary Franc…
How a forgotten Toronto story shows Hemingway beginning to invent himself as a fiction writer During his four years with the Toronto Star, Hemingway produced nearly 200 pieces, 170 under his own name …
🎉 Welcome to the Public Domain, JULES RIMET CUP (1930) 🏆⚽ 🖼️ The original FIFA World Cup trophy, the Jules Rimet Cup was designed by French sculptor Abel Lafleur. Cast in gold-plated sterling silver on…
15 Beautiful Libraries in the U.S. You Should Visit More than just places to read, these U.S. libraries are testaments to history, architecture, and the enduring power of knowledge. https://www.thecol…
The Debate Over Pictures in Science By Danny Robb Botanical illustrations helped bring science to new audiences—but not every scientist welcomed the change. https://daily.jstor.org/the-debate-over-pic…
Jung’s archetypes are a mirror that shows who and what we are Psychedelics and neuroscience seem to support his ideas about ancestral dreams and fears – but with an evolutionary twist by Hugh McGovern…
If you don't know the words to search for, history can feel like it never existed. Finding and preserving queer history takes more than a catalog. It takes people willing to share knowledge and preser…
As wars destroyed schools and libraries across Italy, one Roman official began copying ancient books and helped save centuries of knowledge from disappearing https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/…
#OTD in 1811, William Makepeace Thackeray is born. He "was an English novelist and illustrator. He is known for his satirical works, particularly his 1847–1848 novel Vanity Fair, a panoramic portrait …
