Illuminating forgotten corners of history and using them to think about the present
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New Men and New Minds
An illustration of a Neanderthal from 1875 (Public domain)
The Prussian economy was booming in the middle of the 1800s, and the builders in Berlin needed more limestone. They found it in a valley near Düsseldorf, where businessmen like Wil...
Yokohama: Glimpses of a New Japan
We’ve visited Russia and Texas in our series about places on the verge of big change. Now we’re headed to Japan, which underwent dramatic change in the 1860s.
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Exhibit A: The “Deaf Looter”
Fact and fiction collide in stereographs
Since I spend a lot of time in the late 1800s and early 1900s for this blog, I run across a lot of stereographs.
Galveston, 1900
The second post in this series about places on the brink is about a city that thought it was on the verge of unparalleled prosperity until a natural disaster that they could not foresee (or maybe didn’t want to foresee) destroyed everything...
“The Most Moral Weapon Ever Devised”
Test of a “regular” nuclear weapon, not a neutron bomb (Public domain)
If I asked you to imagine nuclear warfare, I bet you’d picture something out of the movies. You’d probably imagine missiles streaking across the sky, powerful warheads...
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