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Hot on the trail of Levi Furbush -- who may or may not have been the same man as the union activist and regular correspondent in the Bost...

Image courtesy Graduate Theological Union Library, Berkeley CA Of course, the twenty-four-hour news cycle has long ago moved on, but ca...

It's an iconic photo if there ever were one -- Robert Frank's "Drive-In, Detroit, 1955," one of the best-rememered of ...

Twenty-four years ago, when I was a freshly-minted assistant professor, a colleague and I planned a book project to collect brief essays ...

Many people today are familiar with the early photographic format known as the Ambrotype , but few are familiar with James Ambrose Cuttin...

Fordham University Theology professor Miachel Peppard has a bee in his bonnet -- and it's an interesting one. We have, as he points o...

The recent Google Doodle of John Logie Baird's Televisor doubtless raised a few eyebrows -- Baird? Television? Most people, especial...

Photo © Peter Hastings, All Rights Reserved Alan Freed's original Moondog Coronation Ball , which was shut down a few minutes into the f...

The first time I met Ralph Hyde in person was at the old Woolwich Arsenal train station — itself a vaguely panoramic structure, with curv...

One of the more peculiar job titles I've ever had, long before I was a professor, was "Editor of the Eighteenth Century." T...

There's nothing weirder than another country's comics -- a fact that I've known since, at the age of five or six, I first ope...

The invitation was the sort given to important men -- and my great-grandfather-in-law, Mr. Jesse J. John, was such a man. He was a member...

It's not an image of Gandalf you see every day -- but I used to. I bought this poster for my bedroom wall in 1977; when I left the ne...

Seeing that NPR recently published its list of the 'Top 50 Albums' of 2013 , my mind turned to a question asked last year by a fr...

As LED's have become progressively less expensive, the future of indoor lighting looks to be all lit up with them. But back in 1967, ...