May 20, 2008
President Jimmy Carter - “Crisis of Confidence” Speech
A striking new exhibit of photographs taken by GQ design director Fred Woodward. Printed in high-contrast black-and-white, the pictures were originally snapped in 1986 to accompany an article written by Nicholas Lemann for The Atlantic Monthly. The concept was to document how the flight of middle-class African-Americans to Chicago from small towns in the South [...]
Lately I’ve been a bit fascinated with the late 1950’s and 1960’s. There seemed to be so much hope for the future even though the country was caught up in the grips of the cold war. I’m wrapping up The Right Stuff ( book about the early NASA space program) and next I’m going to [...]
Controversial exhibit at the Paris Historical Library shows propaganda laced photos of Paris under Nazi occupation.
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The cause of the most infamous shipping disaster in history may have been found. Everyone knows that the “unsinkable” luxurty liner was hit by an iceberg, the real mystery has been why did it sink so fast?
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