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How Mail Order Brought the Occult – The Public Domain Review
One of the best-known mail-order occult societies of the time, and one that still exists, was the Ancient Mystical Order…
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*The Fall of the House of Usher* (1928) – The Public Domain Review
It was the middle of the winter of 1926, in Rochester, New York, when James Sibley Watson Jr. and his…
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A Q&A with Simon Close about the Public Song Project — The Public Domain Review
I can imagine someone walking away thinking about all kinds of things: What have I learned about history by sifting…
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Body Snatching and Burial Reform in 19th Century Britain – The Public Domain Review
It is clear from the surviving testimonies of resurrection people that pauper cemeteries, without guards or mortuaries, were favorite hunting…
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Elizabeth I’s manuscript copy of Pierre Boaistuau’s *Histoires Prodigieuses* (1559) — The Public Domain Review
Beelzebub, Boaistuau claims, incarnated in two places on earth. First he ruled over the Temple of Apollo at Delphi, where…
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The Glass Delusion and Its History – The Public Domain Review
Three centuries later, Foucault argued that Descartes had not only excluded the glass man from his rationality, but also employed…
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Giant Products Postcards (1909) – The Public Domain Review
The series of exaggeration maps collected below focuses on California. Produced by prolific San Francisco publisher Edward H. Mitchell, each…
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David Goodman Croly’s *Glimpses of the Future* (1888) – The Public Domain Review
The book takes the form of a dialogue, a question and answer between a statesman, publicist, voter, clergyman, social reformer,…
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Fashion, Politics and Identity in Mughal South Asia – The Public Domain Review
Performances played an enormous role within the court theater. The emphasis on dress, which was an inescapable reality of public…
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José Guadalupe Posada’s Engravings of Unusual Births (ca. 1880–1910) – The Public Domain Review
As cultural critic Ilan Stavans writes: “Just as enjoyable and for me the most attractive is the Posada who transports…
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