historíā ‘knowledge obtained by enquiry’

curator-of-curiosities:

Kudos to curator ICP Erin Burnett! A thoughtful show on both Loving and photography. 

newyorker:

Lovings at Home

In 1950, a young man from Central Point, Virginia, went seven miles down the road to hear some music. Seven brothers named the Jeters were on that night, playing bluegrass in a farmhouse. The young man had come for the music, but couldn’t help noticing a young woman in the audience. The man, Richard Loving, was white; the woman, Mildred Jeter, was black and Cherokee. Seventeen years later, as a result of their meeting, the Supreme Court struck down Virginia’s Racial Integrity Act, along with anti-miscegenation laws in fifteen other states, ending the legal prohibitions against interracial marriage.

On view until May 6th at the International Center of Photography, “The Loving Story” highlights the human element of the Loving v. Virginia case, bringing the ardor that fuelled the Lovings’ half-decade of appeals into heart-rending focus…

- For more selection of photographs of Richard and Mildred Loving: http://nyr.kr/wLrC3t

Slavery at Jefferson's Monticello: Paradox of Liberty

Opened last Friday, on exhibit thru October! This looks like another “meat” exhibit for the National Museum of African American History and Culture - the kind of exhibit everyone expects to see (the slavery exhibit) but, as with most of the NMAAHC exhibits I’ve seen, looks like it is more than just the “slave exhibit”

Hot diggity, funding is the bees knees, here’s the online exhibit.

(*hopeful future employee here*)

deejaybird:

“Uhura” comes from the Swahili word UHURU meaning “freedom”. Uhura was pretty much the first ever black main character on American television who was not a maid or a domestic servant in 1966. TV network NBC refused to let Nichelle Nichols be a regular, claiming Deep South affiliates would be angered, so Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry hired her as a “day worker,” but still included her in almost every episode. She actually made more money than any of the other actors through this workaround, and it was kept secret from the other actors, but it was still a humiliating second-class status. The network people made life hard for Nichols, constantly trying to pare down her screen time, purposefully dropping racist comments in her presence and even withholding her fan mail from her.This deplorable state of affairs led Nichols to make the decision to quit after the 1st season, but then she happened to meet the Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr. who pleaded with her to stick with the show because as a Black woman she was portraying the first non-stereotypical role on television. I had a crush on Uhura as a kid. LOL.

(via diasporicroots)

austinkleon:

Thelonious Monk’s Advice, as written down by saxophonist Steve Lacy

(via hitrecordjoe)

fuckyeahmanuscripts:

Spectral imaging of pages from the diary of famed explorer Dr. David Livingstone suggest he may have lied in his account of a slave massacre

Source:

notinthehistorybooks:

November 7th, 1908, famous Wildwest outlaws Robert Parker —better known as Butch Cassidy and is the man sitting on the far right — and his infamous partner Harry Longabaugh — better known as the Sundance Kid and who is sitting on the far left of the picture — are reportadly shot to death in a shootout in Bolivia.

There are numerous claims of both surviving, and the men really shot were decoys, but nothing has been proven.

Interactive Map of Memorials in DC

This online map is designed to help you locate and learn about commemorative works in Washington, DC. You can display memorials by theme, and view the name and a brief description of each memorial by clicking an icon on the map

Linked with 4square for more user interactivity - neato

Lock of Frederick Douglass' hair found at Miss St archives

Found while “combing” (ha!) through notes of a U.S. Grant biographer. It’s finds like these that prove that sometimes, in archival collections, you need more than just a frickin container list

americanroutes:

In honor of Mahalia Jackson’s 100th birthday, here’s an archival interview with the gospel queen, courtesy of the Hogan Jazz Archive. This segment originally aired on our Easter show.

(via musichistory)

todaysdocument:

Batter up for Tag it Tuesday!

In the midst of the World Series, we’re kicking off Tag it Tuesday with some baseball-themed records.  These are just three of the interesting baseball-related records that you can find at the National Archives.  Search “baseball” in the Online Public Access (OPA) system and you’ll get over 3,000 results.

But we need your help!  We’re asking you to step up to the plate and tag your favorite baseball records.  Check out our starting line-up of baseball images in our online catalog.  Click on any of the results, login, and start tagging.

Play Ball!

Go Denise, Go NARA :)