Author: Mark R. Stoneman
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Political cartoon of “Emperor Mussolini” on the cover of Simplicissimus in 1926. The caption reads, “I’ve decided to accept God, but he has to become Italian.” The German here for “accept,” “gelten lassen,” could also be translated as “allow.”
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I have had health insurance through my employer these past seven years, but I still depend on the Affordable Care Act. It has made the scope of coverage meaningful, especially by including so-called preexisting conditions. It has also relieved me of anxiety caused by not knowing if I would have…
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Quotation asking about the implications of open access for art education, which in turn has implications for the open access movement more generally.
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Poster featuring a young woman in a dark blue (?) uniform at a switchboard, a mass of soldiers about to go into battle outside her window. Caption: “Back our girls over there / United War Work Campaign / Y.W.C.A.”
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Compelling color print of a middle-aged African American woman: “The Writing Lesson” by Morris Schulman, sponsored by the WPA, ca. 1935-43. There is also a link to a short blog post I wrote for History of Knowledge.
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This 1899 map’s legend makes sense within a late-nineteenth-century imperialist framework, and the brutality of its seemingly objectively portrayed vision is unmistakable.
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Dear National Security Establishment, Please stop your collective freak-out about North Korea. The power of that country’s weapons lies mainly in our inability to tolerate any risk whatsoever.
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Quotation by Paul J. Croce on the relationship between “false facts” and the stories that give people meaning.
