New Orleans What’s the old saying, a picture can speak a thousand words or something like that? Well, the New York Public Library a couple of days ago dropped 180,000 photos from their collections into the public domain. Any claim to a copyright has long ago expired. The library spent the time and money to …
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La Lucha Libre and Peoples’ Museums
Mexico City Museums are funny, contradictory institutions. The ones we hear about and see most often are the cultural playgrounds of the elite and powerful that contain and promote the dominant institutional, political, and historical messages that are intended to acculturate the rest of us. These are ones that get the big grants, have the …
Difference Between History and Hate on Civil War Symbols
Little Rock President Obama, delivering the eulogy for Rev. Clementa C. Pinckney, slain in his own church in Charleston, South Carolina along with eight members of an evening prayer group, drew the line importantly between history and hate, saying: “Removing the flag from this state’s Capitol would not be an act of political correctness,” Mr. …