The 1970s are often remembered for their distinctive fashion, colorful cars, changing city streets, and evolving American culture. But photographs from the decade reveal another side of the country, where industrial smokestacks towered over residential neighborhoods, chemical plants lined waterways, and pollution was part of everyday life for many communities. These scenes existed alongside ordinary […]

In the past, authorities have authorized censorship on the basis of claims of substantial chances of social disruption or collapse if people were free to hear about religious heresy, alternate ideologies, sexually permissive art, losses in ongoing wars, looming disasters, and pandemic details.

The place where I live was first mentioned in a newspaper on 12th November 1754. It had been raining, the story said, and Samuel Oddy was riding back to Horsforth, Yorkshire, after setting his son off on the long journey to London. He crossed a beck, which was “swell’d with the Rains”. Oddy fell. He … Continue reading "The Long Ago Death of Samuel Oddy, Yeoman of Horsforth" The post The Long Ago Death of Samuel Oddy, Yeoman of Horsforth appeared first on Flashbak.

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Africans who were forcibly transported to the Americas during the Atlantic slave trade introduced cultural institutions and intellectual traditions that have been overlooked in dominant narratives of American history, which overwhelmingly emphasize external influences from Europe.