Dear idling experts, I’ve lived in Massachusetts for three Halloweens now, counting tomorrow, but I’ve yet to trek to Salem for their ghoulish festivities. From what I hear, they’re a real hoot—if by hoot, you mean a gross misappropriation of the past. Why worry about Puritans persecuting each other when you can visit a psychic [...]
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Trick-or-Treaters and Headless Horsemen
Posted in books, cartoons, musicals, periodicals, photography, visual culture, tagged halloween on October 30, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Dust Bowl Ballads of Love, Loneliness, and Mules
Posted in music, photography, tagged dust bowl, folk music, folklife, Library of Congress, music on October 23, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
To the easily exhausted, Believe it or not, I was a lazy scholar even in high school. Ah yes, the days of Netscape and dial-up service, I remember them like they were yesterday! Even then you could find me at my family’s computer, scouring online archives for primary sources sooner than I’d touch the dusty [...]
Queers On the March
Posted in LGBT, periodicals, photography, politics, visual culture, tagged activism, coming out, CUNY, gay, homosexuality, lesbians, NYPL, periodicals, photography, protest on October 9, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
To my fellow followers of Rip Van Winkle, As some of you may know, Sunday, October 11 marks National Coming Out Day, a day for everyone to show their queer or queer-allied colors—and, in this year’s case, march on Washington for marriage equality. (You can read about the history of Coming Out Day—or COD, if [...]
Jews and Protesters (Not Mutually Exclusive)
Posted in periodicals, photography, tagged 1960s, counterculture, periodicals, photography, protest, University of Washington on September 25, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
To my fellow loafers, Two more collections to bookmark today–both from the University of Washington’s digital archives. In honor of the Jewish Day of Atonement this coming Monday, there’s the Washington State Jewish Archives, including 569 photographs, documenting the everyday life of the Evergreen state’s Jews from the 1890s to the 1990s. I can’t figure it [...]
Civil War cartoons and the World’s Fair
Posted in cartoons, photography, tagged cartoons, Civil War, photography, University of Maryland, world's fair on September 23, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Dear Partners in Leisurely Labor, For this entry, I want to highlight the digital collection at University of Maryland, a mid-size but nice to navigate site. One of their newest additions is a book of drawings from a Confederate soldier who was imprisoned in a Union camp in Point Lookout, Maryland for the last year [...]
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