AFL-CIO, “At the Triangle factory, women had to leave the building to use the bathroom.”
Honoring the victims and legacy of the 1911 fire, the memorial will be unveiled and dedicated …
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A Thanksgiving Tradition: Based on an actual event from 1965, Arlo Gutherie’s Alice’s Restaurant
According to Wikipedia,”Alice’s Restaurant was first performed publicly with Guthrie singing live on Radio Unnameable, the overnight program hosted by Bob …
Our self-congratulatory president is an embarrassment; America is becoming the World’s Clown Car.
My take on a HuffPost compilation of Trump’s “I, I, I, Me, Me, Me, and Me proclamations. Stop the insanity. …
The designer of the single most identifiable sign of the cold war—and my childhood—has died.
In the 1960s, they seemed to be everywhere. Churches, department stores, apartment buildings, schools, firehouses, libraries, and telephone switching facilities …
Discover a structure: Architecture and Design Month in New York City, October 2017
Archtober (ärk’tôbər), New York City’s annual Architecture and Design Month, is now in its seventh year! For 2017, the festival …
June Foray, the voice of a generation.
“I love everything I do with all of the parts that I do because there’s a little bit of …
Only this weekend and only in New York: The Donald J. Trump Presidential Twitter Library
Even the press release from Comedy Central is a laugh riot: NEW YORK, June 13, 2017 – The grand opening …
There’s no map on the back, but there’s a handprint on the front and the handwriting has been altered.
Preface The movie, National Treasure is a favorite of mine. It’s a fun romp, a historical-fantasy-mystery, and the Declaration of …
Just released: JFK speaks from his Harvard past in the earliest known recording of his voice.
Harvard has released what its archivists believe is the earliest voice recording of future president, John F. Kennedy, who, as …
Spring 2017: Frank Gehry is teaching an online MasterClass in design & architecture & his creative process
When Jacob and I bought a condo in Baltimore a couple of years ago, the fact that it was in a …
Warhol, a red crayon, and a Brillo Box (3¢ off) come together in a smart, new documentary from HBO.
In 1968 Lisanne Skyler’s father purchased one of Andy Warhol’s Brillo Boxes for $1,000. 40 years later that same Brillo Box (3¢ …
An iconic image from WWII is coming to auction—its backstory is as human as the image itself.
During World War II, Dumbo was the code name—based on Disney’s flying elephant—used by the US Navy to indicate air-sea search and rescue …
On election eve, remembering the first woman to run for President of the United States. She ran in 1964.
Margaret Chase Smith. Author, politician, U.S. congresswoman, presidential candidate, Smith was born Margaret Madeline Chase on December 14, 1897, in Skowhegan, …
“You, too, can have a career in television.”
As World War II was winding down—and prior to plastics—the hot new careers were in television. In 1945, the U.S. government …
Labeled deviant and undesirable, he fought back—for 67 years
Meet Melvin Dwork. He was labeled “deviant” and “undesirable” from 1944 through 2011. During WWII he applied for officer candidate …
FOUND: The only known film of Louis Armstrong in a recording studio. (video)
NEW YORK (AP) — The Louis Armstrong House Museum has acquired the only known film of the great jazz musician …
“Pay up, you blowhard.”
Those are the words that Dr. Giuseppe Rossi, the surgeon who saved Andy Warhol’s life, wrote on the outside of an …