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The “Crying Indian” Ad That Fooled the Environmental Movement
Behind the ‘70s Anti-Pollution Icon Was an Italian-American Actor—and the Beverage Industry. By Finis Dunaway.
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10+ Nostalgic Portraits Of 1970s Rebel Youth Captured By High School Teacher
Before Joseph Szabo was a world renown photographer, he was a teacher at Malverne High School in Long Island. And on his first days at the job he figured that he's gonna need something special to catch the attention of his pupils. So he brought a camera into class...
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An ambitious young photographer captured the chaos and beauty of Greyhound buses in 1943
Esther Bubley documented the hordes of people who crowded onto buses amid wartime rationing.
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NY77: The Coolest Year In Hell
Henry Corra
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Top Misconceptions People Have about Pulp-Era Science Fiction
A lot of people I run into have all kinds of misconceptions about what pulp-era scifi, from the 1920s-1950s, was actually like....
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Route 66: Decay and resilience along iconic US highway
A journey along the legendary Route 66 highway and the landmarks and controversies that made it iconic of the Southwest.
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Eggleston’s Empty America
In William Eggleston’s The Democratic Forest: Selected Works, the photographer’s charge to himself seems to be, “Make a picture of nothing at all,” the emptiness takes on a special character. By Alexander Nemerov.
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The Ouija board’s mysterious origins: war, spirits, and a strange death
Historian Robert Murch has spent years studying the Ouija board. He explains how the civil war and the Sears catalogue fueled a phenomenon. By Baynard Woods.
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The Suburban Horror of the Indian Burial Ground
In the 1970s and 1980s, homeowners were terrified by the idea that they didn't own the land they'd just bought. By Colin Dickey.
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American politics at its most uncivil — in 1804
To anyone complaining that American politics in 2016 is uncivil, consider this: in 1804, the vice president of the US shot a founding father in a duel.
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Photos: What does it look like to stand in the same spot for 40 years?
Time traveling in the forgotten American city
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Eighty Years of James Agee
Christopher Knapp looks back on “Let Us Now Praise Famous Men.”
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Preserving the Muffler Men, America’s Fiberglass Giants
The United States was invaded by hundreds of giants in the 1960s and 70s. Over half a century later, those that remain are weathered and decayed, their kitsch out of fashion.
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Shanty Dreams
A Quest for the Forgotten Stories of the Tennessee River. By Clay Duda. (July 21, 2016)
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Henry Ford’s Campaign to Make America Great Again
In the 1924 presidential election, the most hyped candidate was an egotistical and fabulously wealthy businessman who many politicians did not believe would really run. That man was legendary carmaker Henry Ford, and the resemblance between his political un-career and Donald Trump’s is striking. Ford was impulsive, hated experts of any kind, and refused to commit to a platform, specific policies, or even a political party. Instead he ran—for Senate in 1918, and (kind of) for president in 1924—on his reputation as a captain of industry and force of nature.
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Why Girl Scouts Are Still Mostly White
The 104-year-old organization is having trouble recruiting black and Latina kids. Why?
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Meaning of American Pie by Don McLean (w/lyrics)
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whipping post - the allman brothers band
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Skin deep: glimpse into the history of American tattoo design – in pictures
These hand-drawn artworks from the 1900s to 1960s, collected in a new book, are what customers would choose their design from, and are increasingly rare
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Inside Laredo, the Secret, Members-Only Wild West Town in England
Its founders have spent weekends re-enacting American frontier life for over 30 years.
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