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Cruising New York City With Video Blogger Nelson Sullivan In The 1980s
“Thanks to his scrupulous attention, Nelson’s left behind a treasure trove of late-night videos...
10 months ago
“Thanks to his scrupulous attention, Nelson’s left behind a treasure trove of late-night videos that, even more than the Warhol diaries, trenchantly capture the party years in all their gleeful decadent fun.” – Michael Musto on New York City video blogger (vlogging) Nelson...
TheCollector
The Italian Social Republic: What was the Republic of Salò?
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11 months ago
History Today Feed
When the Swastikas Came to White Hart Lane
When the Swastikas Came to White Hart Lane
JamesHoare
Tue, 05/21/2024 - 08:47
7 months ago
When the Swastikas Came to White Hart Lane
JamesHoare
Tue, 05/21/2024 - 08:47
TheCollector
The Last Great Pharaoh? The Story of Ramesses III
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8 months ago
Res Obscura
There should be more cash prizes for solving historical mysteries
On the Herculaneum scroll and the underrated value of historical knowledge
a year ago
On the Herculaneum scroll and the underrated value of historical knowledge
TheCollector
10 Historical Places to Visit in Sussex
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6 months ago
TheCollector
What Jewelry and Adornment Did the Celts Wear?
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3 months ago
TheCollector
What Was Emerson’s Vision for the American Scholar?
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11 months ago
TheCollector
Who Is Satan in the New Testament?
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TheCollector
Art Philanthropy in the US Depends on Prestige
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11 months ago
History Today Feed
Jackie Coogan and the Fall of Hollywood’s Child Stars
Jackie Coogan and the Fall of Hollywood’s Child Stars
JamesHoare
Thu, 02/01/2024 - 09:58
10 months ago
Jackie Coogan and the Fall of Hollywood’s Child Stars
JamesHoare
Thu, 02/01/2024 - 09:58
TheCollector
What Does it Mean to Break the Fourth Wall?
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a year ago
TheCollector
Hinduism in Bali: Things You Need to Know
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5 months ago
TheCollector
The Violent Race Riots of the Red Summer of 1919
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a year ago
TheCollector
10 Things an Art Lover Should Do in Paris
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4 months ago
TheCollector
10 Oldest National Parks in the United States
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TheCollector
Climate Vandal Painted Words in Red Next to a Civil War Exhibit
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a year ago
TheCollector
What Is Mudlarking? Treasure Hunting in the Thames
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TheCollector
Colonial Mexican Art: 4 Key Formats and Themes
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10 months ago
TheCollector
5 of Hildegard of Bingen’s Most Notable Works
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a year ago
TheCollector
What Is Anxiety to Soren Kierkegaard?
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7 months ago
TheCollector
Quipu: How Did the Inca Record Information with Cords & Knots?
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a year ago
TheCollector
Why Is Nicosia the Last Divided Capital of Cyprus?
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3 months ago
TheCollector
8 Things You Should Know About Wangechi Mutu
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a year ago
TheCollector
7 Real Characters from Arthurian Legends
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9 months ago
Trying to Understand...
France Saves Europe.
Again. In a manner of speaking.
9 months ago
Again. In a manner of speaking.
TheCollector
King Tut: The Life & Afterlife of the Boy Pharaoh
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a year ago
TheCollector
10 Must-Visit Historic Towns in New York
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3 months ago
TheCollector
Who Won Sherman’s March to the Sea?
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6 months ago
Classical Wisdom
A Book 100 Years in the Making
Dear Classical Wisdom Reader,
3 weeks ago
Dear Classical Wisdom Reader,
TheCollector
Conservative Resurgence in the US: Traditional, New Right, & Tea Party
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11 months ago
Patterns in Humanity
When Lightning Strikes... Literally
A quantification of the risk of dying from a lightning strike and other external sources of harm
a year ago
A quantification of the risk of dying from a lightning strike and other external sources of harm
Trying to Understand...
China And Russia Walk Into A Room.
And don't say a word about Europe.
6 months ago
And don't say a word about Europe.
TheCollector
Shakespeare’s Hamlet: Everything You Need to Know About the Tragedy
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4 months ago
African History...
a brief note on the history of indigenous and foreign religions in African history, and the Kimpasi...
The majority of Africans today primarily identify as Christians and Muslims of various...
4 months ago
The majority of Africans today primarily identify as Christians and Muslims of various denominations, with a relatively small fraction adhering to other belief systems often referred to as 'indigenous' or 'traditional' religions.
TheCollector
First Nations of the Canadian Atlantic Provinces: A Brief History
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4 months ago
TheCollector
How Did Henri Matisse’s Travels Influence His Art?
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5 months ago
TheCollector
The Story of the Calydonian Boar Hunt in Greek Mythology
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2 months ago
Open Culture
Binge-Watch Classic Television Programs Free: The Dick Van Dyke Show, The Lone Ranger, Dragnet, That...
Earlier this week, we featured the 99-year-old Dick Van Dyke’s performance in Coldplay’s new music...
a week ago
Earlier this week, we featured the 99-year-old Dick Van Dyke’s performance in Coldplay’s new music video, full of visual references to the sitcom that made him a household name in the early nineteen-sixties. And a household name he remains these six decades later, though one does...
TheCollector
Why Did Bruno Latour Claim that “We Have Never Been Modern”?
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a year ago
Trying to Understand...
Little People With Agency.
No, not that Agency.
3 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Electra: Powerful or Pathetic?
Which Playwright did it better?
5 months ago
Which Playwright did it better?
TheCollector
Why Did Socrates Never Write Down His Teachings?
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10 months ago
TheCollector
Tunisian Bardo Museum Reopened Recently
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a year ago
TheCollector
Jackie Wang’s Carceral Capitalism: Is Capitalism Compulsory?
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a year ago
TheCollector
Ernest Shackleton & Endurance in the Antarctic
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a year ago
TheCollector
A History of the United States Supreme Court
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a year ago
TheCollector
10 Facts About the Pearl Harbor Attack
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3 weeks ago
TheCollector
Hell in the Bible: Eternal Damnation vs. Annihilationism
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3 months ago
Flashbak
American Photographs: A Journey Down The Blue Highways, 1970s
You see, I’ve been through The desert on a horse with no name It felt good to be out of the rain In...
2 months ago
You see, I’ve been through The desert on a horse with no name It felt good to be out of the rain In the desert you can remember your name ‘Cause there ain’t no one for to give you no pain – America, A Horse With No Name We don’t know where British … Continue reading "American...
TheCollector
Why Is Nan Goldin Considered a Trailblazer in Modern Photography?
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8 months ago
Hundred Rabbits
goji no chaimu
After a long 21-day passage, seeing the shape of the island of Chichijima in the distance was...
over a year ago
After a long 21-day passage, seeing the shape of the island of Chichijima in the distance was unreal; this was our prize, our first step onto Japanese soil. We used to make many trips to Japan by plane, but getting there by our own efforts — by sailboat — is a lot slower and...
TheCollector
Get to Know Claudius Ptolemy & His Geocentric Model of the Universe
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a year ago
TheCollector
5 Top Fighter Aces of World War I
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a year ago
TheCollector
Which Reforms Shaped Ancient Sparta?
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7 months ago
TheCollector
Citizen of the World: TheCollector Interviews Composer Omar Rahbany
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9 months ago
A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, February 2, 2024 (On City Building Games)
Fireside this week! I have just finished up a draft of a chapter (to be in one of those...
10 months ago
Fireside this week! I have just finished up a draft of a chapter (to be in one of those multi-multi-author companion volumes) on how video games (particularly more abstract simulation games) depict the ancient world. Writing that chapter led me to reengage with ancient city...
TheCollector
The 21st Amendment: The Only Amendment That Repealed Another
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Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
The Essential Greeks
6 months ago
TheCollector
Here’s How AI Completed Keith Haring’s Work
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3 months ago
TheCollector
4 Techniques of 19th-Century Photography You Should Know
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a year ago
TheCollector
A Roman Sarcophagus Discovered by French Archaeologists
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a year ago
TheCollector
The Lost Cause Philosophy of the American Civil War: Fact vs. Fiction
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4 weeks ago
TheCollector
What Is the Significance of the Carnegie Libraries?
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a month ago
African History...
When Africa discovered Europe
*my article for New Lines Magazine
a year ago
*my article for New Lines Magazine
TheCollector
Here’s How AI Helped Recover Lost Paintings by Gustav Klimt
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3 months ago
TheCollector
What’s the Best Time to Visit Niagara Falls?
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5 months ago
History Today Feed
Pet Monkeys in Victorian Britain
Pet Monkeys in Victorian Britain
j.hoare
Tue, 01/16/2024 - 09:57
11 months ago
Pet Monkeys in Victorian Britain
j.hoare
Tue, 01/16/2024 - 09:57
TheCollector
What Was Judith Leyster’s Contribution to Dutch Painting?
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10 months ago
TheCollector
George Lindemann Family Returned Looted Items to Cambodia
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a year ago
Flashbak
Found Vintage Photobooth Pictures
“Collecting the photobooth strip (approximate size 8 inches by 1.5 inches) has been an adventure,”...
4 months ago
“Collecting the photobooth strip (approximate size 8 inches by 1.5 inches) has been an adventure,” says vintage photography collector Robert E. Jackson. “If you see or own an amazing photobooth, you can pretty much figure it used to be part of a 4-pose strip. The individual...
Trying to Understand...
The Rise of Extractive Politics
It's about having small expectations.
a year ago
It's about having small expectations.
TheCollector
An Art-lover’s Guide to Buenos Aires
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6 months ago
History Today Feed
Death of the King of Siam
Death of the King of Siam
JamesHoare
Tue, 10/01/2024 - 10:26
2 months ago
Death of the King of Siam
JamesHoare
Tue, 10/01/2024 - 10:26
TheCollector
What is Wolfgang Tillmans Most Famous For?
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a year ago
TheCollector
Giorgio Agamben on the End of the Poem
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a year ago
Hundred Rabbits
the rock of polynesia
Niue, pronounced 'New-ay', a rock in the Pacific, one of the largest coral islands on earth. It's...
over a year ago
Niue, pronounced 'New-ay', a rock in the Pacific, one of the largest coral islands on earth. It's the first country to offer free, state-funded, wireless internet to all its residents and has a goal of being completely solar powered— uuuh... wow?
We'd also heard that the school...
TheCollector
6 Greek Gods & Their Role in Homer’s Odyssey
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a year ago
TheCollector
Freedom of Speech in the United States: An Overview
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TheCollector
What Were the Main Aims of Fauvism?
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a year ago
TheCollector
Contemporary Artist to Recreate Missing Piece of Bayeux Tapestry
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TheCollector
Black Panther Party Founder: Who Was Huey Newton?
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TheCollector
7 Ways in Which Ancient Egypt Influenced Greece
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a year ago
TheCollector
Delian League vs Persian Empire: The Greeks on the Offensive
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a year ago
Trying to Understand...
Teach Your Children ....
Not to be afraid of moral relativism.
a year ago
Not to be afraid of moral relativism.
TheCollector
Anglo-Afghan Wars: How Afghanistan Became the Graveyard of Empires
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2 weeks ago
TheCollector
Is Right & Wrong a Matter of Perspective? Moral Relativism Explained
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11 months ago
TheCollector
How Found Objects Became Central to Modern Art
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TheCollector
10 Historic Towns in Texas Perfect for Retirement
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2 months ago
TheCollector
6 Outrageous Whaling Stories
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8 months ago
TheCollector
What Are the 5 Greatest Protest Songs of the 20th Century?
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4 months ago
TheCollector
Battle of the Jaxartes (329 BCE): Alexander’s Spectacular Victory
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3 months ago
TheCollector
Who Is the Egyptian God Thoth?
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a year ago
TheCollector
What Is Henry Darger’s In The Realms of the Unreal?
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6 months ago
TheCollector
Ghiberti vs. Brunelleschi: The Renaissance Competition
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6 months ago
TheCollector
5 Actions of the American Indian Movement
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5 months ago
TheCollector
Who Was Mithridates the Great?
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4 months ago
TheCollector
17 Titillating Facts about the History of Tea
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10 months ago
TheCollector
Who Is Satan in the Hebrew Bible?
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2 weeks ago
TheCollector
10 Famous Saints Associated With Christmas
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2 days ago
History Today Feed
Spycraft and the Glorious Revolution
Spycraft and the Glorious Revolution
JamesHoare
Tue, 03/19/2024 - 09:20
9 months ago
Spycraft and the Glorious Revolution
JamesHoare
Tue, 03/19/2024 - 09:20
TheCollector
5 Key Tenets of Rastafarian: Between Zion and Babylon
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a year ago
TheCollector
Should You Believe in Something Just Because It’s Logical?
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3 months ago
TheCollector
Was Henry VI England’s Most Unfortunate King?
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12 months ago
History Today Feed
What Use is Prehistory to the Historian?
What Use is Prehistory to the Historian?
JamesHoare
Thu, 05/30/2024 - 09:19
6 months ago
What Use is Prehistory to the Historian?
JamesHoare
Thu, 05/30/2024 - 09:19
Classical Wisdom
Is an unjust peace better than a just war?
Or does war have its virtues?
10 months ago
Or does war have its virtues?
TheCollector
Good Friday: The Significance of the Day & How Christians Observe It
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8 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Last Chance
Secure Seats for the In Search of Homer Trip
a month ago
Secure Seats for the In Search of Homer Trip
TheCollector
Aristotle’s Poetics: A Brief Overview
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a year ago
TheCollector
Margaret Fuller’s Dazzling Life: Interview with Dr. John T. Matteson
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10 months ago
African History...
The empire of Samori Ture on the eve of colonialism (1870-1898)
a revolution with a contested legacy.
a year ago
a revolution with a contested legacy.
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