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1. One Hundred Years Ago One Hundred Years isn't very long ago in the scheme of things, in fact for many of us, it was the time when our Great Grandparents or even Grandparents were...
2. History of the 20th Century It's so much fun to travel through time learning about different peoples, cultures, places, customs, occupations, the arts, and more! Join us in our research...
3. About Henry Moore - Famous British Sculptor Henry Moore (1898-1986) was an English artist and sculptor who was probably the most celebrated sculptor of the twentieth century. Works were often sculpted...
4. The Art of Magritte This lens is dedicated to the art and thoughts of the great Belgian surrealist artist Rene Magritte. Get to know more about this great artist's biography...
5. Juicy Typewriter Information Hub! One never quite appreciates the products of one's own generation, but oh, the allure of a vintage typewriter that has passed through the hands of a great hi...
6. 1930s Pop Culture in Review Do you remember the 1930s either from personal experience or from your studies in school? If so, you may agree that pop culture in the 1930s was an interesting...
7. The Talking Machine victrola (plural victrolas) In common usage, any upright or console model phonograph from the early 1900s, usually with a wooden cabinet body and an interior...
8. Best Italo Svevo Books If Sigmund Freud had any literary talent.... who knows... But Italo Svevo introduced psycho-analysis to literature and aren't we glad he did? Born Aron Ett...
9. Three Native American Heroes of the Early 20th Century History has a mysterious way of deciding who is remembered and how. The Native American impact on American History is full until the late 1880's. Then seemingly...
10. Carlton Ware - 20th Century Ceramics Carlton Ware is a growing area of interest with collectors of ceramics and has been for many years. Its strong, sometimes quirky, designs fit in well with 21st...
11. No Ordinary Mother But she never thought so. If asked what she 'did', she would usually reply - "Oh, I don't know. Nothing much really. I'm just a housewife and mother". Nothing?...
12. Joanna Bourke Joanna Bourke is a professor at the School of History, Birckbeck University of London. Her Series of Books about the history of the last century are now also...
13. Marcel Proust : IN SEARCH OF LOST TIME = The Best Novel Ever Written! Marcel Proust's In Search of Lost Time is often cited as the greatest Western novel, but because of its length--over 4,000 pages in the standard English tra...
14. Things That Can't Be Explained Away: The Ugly Truth About US History For too long we have ignored the unpleasant aspects of our society. We're a nation plagued by political apathy and historical ignorance (a dangerous combina...
15. Our American Dream Immigration and the American Dream (updated 4/1/09) As the centennial anniversaries of WWI and WWII grow near, and the number of people who remember those days...
16. Was J Edgar Hoover Gay? Was the powerful head of the FBI, the G-man in chief, gay? Was he seen cross-dressing in the company of naked young men? Or was this fiction, designed to discredit...
17. Vintage Fashion Books There are so many aspects of the vintage fashion industry. If you are a collector of vintage, seller, plain old curious about how to identify a 1920's art d...
18. Grandma's Magic Pan: Adventures in Cast Iron Cooking This lens is dedicated to my Grandma. She could cook ANYTHING in that old iron skillet and it would be delicious! Heck, she could cook anything period and it...
19. Weimar Mad Libs For the past couple of years, I've wanted to learn more about the Weimar Republic. I knew that our economy could not be sustainable with the way that we were...
20. How to get out of fighting in world war 1, 2, or to come Many soldiers died in the world wars- in really terrible ways. This is the ultimate 'get out of games note' for cowards and sane people worldwide. Here ther...