An attempt to apply Tocqueville’s concept of Enlightened Self-Interest to mask wearing during the Covid-19 pandemic.
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Alexis de Tocqueville on Mask Wearing
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by Origins of American Woman
Using Minecraft to Experience the Great Fire of London
I love how its possible to recreate historical worlds for people to explore and get a sense of change by using games like Minecraft.
Source: Experience the Great Fire of London Via Minecraft | News & Opinion | PCMag.com
by History of the Jukebox
I once got a record pulled from a jukebox at my favorite college bar by playing it a dozen times in a row.
The story of Louis Glass, the original jukebox hero.
Source: How the Jukebox Got Its Groove
by The Fake Zombies and the Musicians Who Portrayed Them
Gotta love when a song is so popular, but the band so little known that a fake group can claim their identity and tour the U.S.
Source: The True Story Of The Fake Zombies, The Strangest Con In Rock History
by Want to Influence World Leaders? Become a Historian
Very interesting article by Nick Danforth on how Barbara Tuckman’s book, The Guns of August, helped convinced John F. Kennedy to not let the Cuban Missle Crisis turn into a nuclear war.
Source: Can History Save the World? – War on the Rocks
by …not if you consider history as something alive that can live and breathe and bleed.
We should speak of it as an attack on history, which it was. This was the church founded by Denmark Vesey, who planned a slave revolt in 1822. Vesey was convicted in a secret trial in which many of the witnesses testified after being tortured. After they hung him, a mob burned down the church he built. His sons rebuilt it. On Wednesday night, someone turned it into a slaughter pen.
We should speak of it as an assault on the idea of a political commonwealth, which is what it was. And we should speak of it as one more example of all of these, another link in a bloody chain of events that reaches all the way back to African wharves and Southern docks. It is not an isolated incident, not if you consider history as something alive that can live and breathe and bleed.
Source: Charleston Shooting: Speaking the Unspeakable, Thinking the Unthinkable
by Amelia Earhart from 1937
You can see the final footage of the Amelia Earhart before she went missing during her attempt to fly around the world.
Source: Watch footage of Amelia Earhart from 1937 – Boing Boing
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