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Searching for Mr. X

For eight years, a man without a memory lived among strangers at a hospital in Mississippi. But was recovering his identity the happy ending he was looking for?
by Laura Todd Carns via The Atavist on September 20, 2021
An astronaut on the moon with the MTV flag planted.

Watch the First Two Hours of MTV’s Inaugural Broadcast

MTV's 1981 broadcast was advertised to be as important as the moon landing.
by Ted Mills via Open Culture on August 6, 2021
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My Father, Cultural Appropriator

The daughter of Buddy Holly's bandmate reflects on the defensiveness some white people have about the roots of rock 'n' roll.
by Sarah Curtis via Los Angeles Review of Books on June 5, 2021
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Inside the Sketchy Dance Marathon Craze SF's Women Helped Stop

Dance marathons were essentially the Netflix dating show of the Great Depression.
by Greg Keraghosian via SFGATE on April 11, 2021
A shoe stepping on money.

Islands in the Stream

Musicians are in peril, at the mercy of giant monopolies that profit off their work.
by David Dayen via The American Prospect on March 22, 2021
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No, Rush Limbaugh Did Not Hijack Your Parents’ Christianity

White evangelicals have long been attracted to the conservative media's militant politics and regressive gender roles.
by Kristin Kobes Du Mez via Religion Dispatches on February 22, 2021
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The Crossroads Facing Country Music After Morgan Wallen’s Use of a Racist Slur

Will the industry remain a bastion of conservatism, or take advantage of the opportunity to broaden its base?
by Amanda Marie Martinez via Made by History on February 17, 2021
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How the First Airmail Pilots Learned to Fly in the Dark

Almost a century ago, a network of signals guided airmail pilots across the country. A photographer documents the remnants of this transcontinental system.
by Chris Forsyth, Daegan Miller via Places Journal on February 1, 2021
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The Fairness Doctrine Sounds A Lot Better Than It Actually Was

A return to the fairness doctrine wouldn't curb the damage caused by the far-right media ecosystem fueling much of America's conspiracy-driven politics.
by Nicole Hemmer via CNN on January 27, 2021
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A Brief History of Consumer Culture

Over the 20th century, capitalism preserved its momentum by molding the ordinary person into a consumer with an unquenchable thirst for more stuff.
by Kerryn Higgs via The MIT Press Reader on January 11, 2021
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Citizen DJ 2020 Retrospective

The long history of sampling in music, and a new tool that lets artists sample without fear of copyright claims.
by Brian Foo via Citizen DJ on December 31, 2020
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Joni Mitchell’s Youthful Artistry

A new release records the musician’s early metamorphosis—unmoored, broke, living for a time in an attic—when her lodestar was her big, strange, unwieldy talent.
by Margaret Talbot via The New Yorker on November 29, 2020
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Night Terrors

The creator of ‘The Twilight Zone’ dramatized isolation and fear but still believed in the best of humanity.
by Andrew Delbanco via New York Review of Books on October 29, 2020
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Political Debates: What Unforgettable Moments Reveal

High-stakes debates put candidates in the hot seat. But are they helpful to voters?
via Retro Report on September 24, 2020
A parade of people carrying American flags and Nazi Germany flags, black and white, New York 1937.

Operation Paperclip and Nazis in America

The two decades leading up to WWII featured numerous connections between America and Nazi Germany that reveal Nazism was never simply a foreign or enemy force.
by Ben Railton via The Saturday Evening Post on September 20, 2020
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The Los Angeles Mayor Who Was Also a KKK Leader

In 1929, Mayor Porter was part of a long history of city figures who perpetuated white supremacy as a foundational and systemic ideal.
by Blazedale via L. A. Taco on July 8, 2020

Rewriting Country Music's Racist History

Artists like Yola and Rhiannon Giddens are blowing up what Giddens calls a “manufactured image of country music being white and being poor.”
by Elamin Abdelmahmoud via Rolling Stone on June 5, 2020
Heavily armed police patrolling Los Angeles in the 1960s.

“No Matter How Different the Movements Were, the LAPD Targeted Every One of Them”

From the Black Panthers to the Communist Party, radical Los Angeles in the ’60s was a seething cauldron of unrest, united by the brutal repression of the LAPD.
by Mike Davis, Jon Wiener, Meagan Day via Jacobin on May 29, 2020

The First Lady of American Journalism

Dorothy Thompson finds a room of her own.
by Nancy F. Cott via Lapham’s Quarterly on March 17, 2020

‘Baby, It's Cold Outside' Was Controversial From the Beginning

Here’s what to know about consent in the 1940s, when the song was written.
by Olivia B. Waxman via Made By History on December 5, 2019

The Scandinavian Christian Music Industry and Transatlantic Pentecostalism

In the post-war era, a wave of American young evangelists flocked to Europe to claim the continent for Christ. And the exchanges went both ways.
by Hilde Løvdal Stephens via Anxious Bench on July 11, 2019

Back When American Fascism Was Bad

On the cancelling of Charles Lindbergh.
by Ed Burmila via The Baffler on July 10, 2019

Simply Elegant, Morse Code Marks 175 Years and Counting

The code has undergone minor changes since its creation, but its use persists to this day.
by Eddie King via The Conversation on May 21, 2019

Why Disco Made Pop Songs Longer

Disco, DJs, and the impact of the 12-inch single.
by Estelle Caswell via Vox Earworm on April 25, 2019

Punjabi Convoy

A history of trucking in America, told through the music that has kept truckers company on the lonely road.
by Nick Murray via Popula on March 25, 2019
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The Unlikely Endurance of Christian Rock

The genre has been disdained by the church and mocked by secular culture. That just reassured practitioners that they were rebels on a righteous path.
by Kelefa Sanneh via The New Yorker on September 17, 2018
Amelia Earhart and Fred Noonan loading equipment onto her plane.

Researchers Say Dozens Heard Amelia Earhart's Final Moments

They claim Earhart made several attempts to reach civilization in her final days — and her messages got through.
by Cleve R. Wootson Jr. via Retropolis on July 25, 2018
A man demonstrating television to another.

This Futuristic Color TV Set Concept From 1922 Was Way Ahead of Its Time

Back in the earliest days of imagining what TV looked like, the appliance was a magic technology.
by Matt Novak via Paleofuture on May 4, 2018
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Protecting Places: Historic Preservation and Public Broadcasting

An collection of audio and video recordings that document Americans' efforts to preserve historic structures.
by Kara Zelasko via American Archive of Public Broadcasting on March 2, 2018
Boston Herald assistant publisher W.G. Gavin at the “Rumor Clinic,” 1942.

During WWII, 'Rumor Clinics' Were Set Up to Dispel Morale-Damaging Gossip

A network of "morale wardens" tracked down the latest scuttlebutt.
by Crystal Ponti via Atlas Obscura on May 17, 2017
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