Tag Archives: USA

1865: John Wilkes Booth Shot Me!

Posted on July 5, 2017 by corvusfugit

In a letter published in the April 1910 issue of The Journal of Psychical Research, a woman named Ella Hughes recalled a childhood connection to John Wilkes Booth and a strange dream of her mother’s at the time of Lincoln’s … Continue reading →

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1956: I’m Putting My Queer Shoulder to the Wheel

Posted on July 4, 2017 by corvusfugit

America America I’ve given you all and now I’m nothing. America two dollars and twenty-seven cents January 17, 1956. I can’t stand my own mind. America when will we end the human war? Go fuck yourself with your atom bomb … Continue reading →

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1964: I Haven’t Lost the Faith

Posted on July 4, 2017 by corvusfugit

MLK preaches on July 4, 1965, two years after the March on Washington: About two years ago now, I stood with many of you who stood there in person and all of you who were there in spirit before the … Continue reading →

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1854: A Train of Terrible Miseries

Posted on July 4, 2017 by corvusfugit

It may appear to those whom I have the honor to address a singular taste for me, an Indian, to take an interest in the triumphal days of a people who occupy, by conquest or have usurped, the possessions of … Continue reading →

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1852: What, to the Slave

Posted on July 4, 2017 by corvusfugit

What, to the American slave, is your 4th of July? I answer: a day that reveals to him, more than all other days in the year, the gross injustice and cruelty to which he is the constant victim. To him, … Continue reading →

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1920: Thomas Shields Clarke Leaves his Autochromes

Posted on July 3, 2017 by corvusfugit

    The Autochrome Lumière—patented in 1903 by the brothers Lumière in France and first marketed in 1907—was the first method of making color photographs, and quickly become popular among amateur photographers like Thomas Shields Clarke, an American painter and … Continue reading →

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1819: Kahikona arrives in Hawai’i

Posted on July 2, 2017 by corvusfugit

Beginning in the early part of the last millennium, Polynesians explored 16 million square miles of ocean by canoe, navigating by the stars, sun, clouds, ocean swells, and currents; they settled on every habitable island in the Pacific and likely … Continue reading →

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1903: Along the Shore

Posted on June 30, 2017 by corvusfugit

William Trost Richards: Along the Shore (1903)

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1958: Indrani Rahman and a Douglas DC-6

Posted on June 27, 2017 by corvusfugit

Sunil Janah: Indrani Rahman Born in Chennai, Indrani Rahman was instilled with a sense of independence by her mother, a dancer from Petosky, Michigan who had changed her name from Esther Sherman to Ragini Devi when she’d married Ramalal Balram … Continue reading →

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1934: Self-Portrait with Pipe

Posted on June 26, 2017 by corvusfugit

Samuel Joseph Brown: Smoking My Pipe (1934)

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