Dear weekend awaiters, This is the second installment of a new Lazy Scholar feature, pairing news items with historical archives. • Slate‘s TV Club is diligently following and debating the new season of Mad Men. If you haven’t watched (is that possible?), it’s a 60s scholar’s dream, with carefully reconstructed interior design, fashion, and, yes, [...]
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Old News: Advertising, Globetrotting, Fishing
Posted in advertising, african-americans, periodicals, photography, television, tagged advertising, eat pray love, louisa may alcott, mad men, northampton, oil spill, Smith College on August 13, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Old News: Ice Cream, Gay Marriage, Stamps!
Posted in african-americans, food, photography, radio, tagged farm security administration, gay marriage, ice cream, postal service, radio, stamps on August 4, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Dear regular readers, Today the Lazy Scholar is experimenting with a new feature called Old News, in which current news items are paired with archival finds. Let me know if you like it! • The New York Times ran a taste-test of strawberry ice cream, only to find that the not-so-local, not-so-artisinal Häagen-Dazs variety beat [...]
Divided States #3: Connecticut Connections
Posted in cities, college, Divided States, periodicals, photography, tagged colt, connecticut, history, new haven, urban renewal on July 28, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Many who like procrastination like this blog, Today’s post, number three in the Lazy Scholar’s ongoing Divided States project, comes to you from Brian Distelberg, a historian of twentieth-century U.S. culture and politics and a PhD candidate at Yale. I first encountered Distelberg’s work in the most recent issue of GLQ, featuring his rich and [...]
Cal Coolidge’s Go Kart and Other Wonders of Western MA
Posted in food, photography on June 4, 2010 | 2 Comments »
To anyone who’s ever read an academic monograph on the beach, The fiancé and I have relocated to Northampton, Massachusetts for the summer. For the moment, I’m still trying to find my bearings, which mostly means charting the routes between our apartment and every café in a two-mile radius. My friend Katie has also lent [...]
Corsets and Cross-dressing, or the Joys of Theater
Posted in advertising, photography, theater, tagged Guys and Dolls, Joseph Jefferson, Julian Eltinge on April 23, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Dear Prodigy pioneers, This week and next, the undergrad dorm where I’m a resident tutor is putting on their annual musical—this year Guys and Dolls. And complete Carrie Bradshawesque narcissist that I am, that got me thinking back to my own theatrical past, specifically trying out for my high school’s production of Guys and Dolls [...]
African-American Portraits, Black and White Photographers
Posted in african-americans, photography, visual culture, tagged Black History Month on March 1, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Dear deadline dodgers, Regular readers may have noticed my online output has slowed lately, for which I can only blame the short days, the rainy weather, and that fine art some call “dissertating.” Alas, in my delinquency, I missed a chance to offer a Black History Month missive—so I hope you’ll accept this belated attempt. [...]
The Divided States #2: South Dakota Sojourn
Posted in Divided States, Native Americans, photography, tagged South Dakota on January 29, 2010 | 2 Comments »
Dear online wanderers, Today, I bring you the second installment of “The Divided States,” my small effort to uncover the digital archives of each and every American state, from sea to shining sea. (Read “Pennsylvania Mania” if you missed it). This time, we head northwest to South Dakota. South Dakota’s been on my mind the [...]
AIDS Artwork and Activism
Posted in advertising, illness, LGBT, photography, politics, visual culture, tagged ACT UP, AIDS, World AIDS day on November 30, 2009 | 3 Comments »
To those of you blaming tryptophan for your Monday morning lag, Tomorrow, December 1, marks World AIDS Day, which seems like a good moment to point to some online resources about the history of the illness, its impact, and the art and activisim it inspired. The Carpenter Center here at Harvard has organized an extraordinary [...]
Chickens and State Fairs
Posted in commerce, food, leisure, photography, tagged georgia, state fair on November 18, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Dear lethargic readers, It’s one of the regrets of my life thus far that I’ve never been to a county or state fair—to my knowledge, there weren’t many (or any) on Long Island where I grew up. Thanks to the Digital Library of Georgia, however, I can at least enjoy the “idea” of the state [...]
Gold in Them Thar Hills
Posted in photography, visual culture, tagged african-americans, California, chinese-americans, University of California on November 2, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Dear manic Monday dreaders, Think your week is tough? Imagine digging for gold in the heat and hills of California! (Or maybe that sounds like fun to some of you writing dissertations.) Calisphere (from the University of California) offers a remarkable window into the history of California, including the highs and lows of the Gold [...]
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