It Came From Above: A Visual History of Astronomy(Post)

     By Leah Dearborn When NASA's New Horizons probe hurtled past Pluto in 2015, it provided hundreds of new images of the far corners of the solar system.  Artists, however, have been creating detailed

    WPA Poster: The Sun Rises In The West Written And Produced By Southwest Theatre Unit(Post)

    We are currently facing circumstances that approach the Great Depression. In May 1935, just a few days and 85 years ago, the government enacted the Works Progress Administration. “The Work

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    States Helping States. It Has Happened Before.(Post)

    In response to the medical disaster unfolding in New York, the governors of Oregon, Washington and California sent ventilators. Robert Kraft, owner of the New England Patriots football team, sent 300,

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    Historic Songs For A Pandemic(Post)

    In 1918 two events were consuming the attention and resources of the world: World War I and the Flu pandemic.  The pandemic received scant attention from popular culture though it affected most aspect

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    AMERICAN MEMORY A great revolution in the history of poster prints was the development of printing techniques that allowed for inexpensive, mass production. The most notable of these, lithography,...

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    ORDER INFORMATION The images we use to make prints from come from digital scans of original prints in the public domain provided by the Library of Congress.  The Library of Congress generally...

    Halloween - Chapter 1 : “Thys Yere The Towne Of Depe” (Part 1)(Post)

    Halloween is at once the most orange-blooded American and the most other-worldly of holidays. With its roots in the spooky spirit-wanderings of Celtic lands, Halloween was brought to America by Ir

    The Stories Of Monhegan Island(Post)

    Monhegan Island is a wild, sometimes harsh place. Native Americans roamed here fishing its waters and exploring its rocky wooded terrain. Pirates landed on its shores, some say leaving buried treas

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    Origins of the Historic Bird's Eye View Map

    Ye Ghost Ship(Post)

    An hour before sunset, after a stormy June day, in the year 1648, a crowd of colonists from the very new town of New Haven stood at the shore to watch a ship sail into harbor. While many had