From the eighteenth-century Moravians singing hymns on communal farms, to twentieth-century steelworkers laboring in blazing furnaces, to twenty-first century healthcare and warehouse workers cutting loose at Musikfest, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania has moved to many beats.
The Hagley Digital Archives are alive and growing again, and one of it's newest additions is a recently acquired publication in our collection of rare pamphlets.
Working parents rely on childcare infrastructure, and as working parent became an ever-larger proportion of the American workforce from the 1960s onward, the lack of accessible, affordable, quality childcare became a major political and cultural issue.
This week marks the 100th anniversary of the world's first intercontinental radio transmission. On September 29, 1915, a U.S. naval radio station in Arlington, Virginia initiated a transmission to another naval radio station on Mare Island in San Francisco, California, which then relayed to Honolulu, Hawaii.
The demonstration was a joint public-private venture coordinated through defense contracts with the American Telephone & Telegraph Co. (AT&T) and the Western Electric Co., using equipment installed at radio stations under Navy jurisdiction.
According to an AI search, up to 15% of humans have a fear of spiders. Strangely though, spiders get a pass during the build up to Halloween. Spider-themed decorations adorn many homes and businesses with nary a blink or shudder from passersby. With that in mind as the holiday approaches, I hope, dear reader, that you can put aside your fears for once and show a little pity for the poor spider as I am about to introduce you to a one-of-kind patent model that tortured spiders in a quest to create a new textile industry for formerly enslaved Americans.
My name is Murat Iplikci, and I am a Visiting Scholar in the Department of History at Tufts University. I received my undergraduate degree in Industrial Engineering and later completed both my M.A. and Ph.D. in History at Bilkent University in Turkey. Following a postdoctoral fellowship at Columbia University’s Sakıp Sabancı Center for Turkish Studies in 2023–2024, I am now continuing my research at Tufts.
It is not often that great works of art lost for 70 years can be seen again in some form approximating their original appearance. Yet, that is now the case for several long-destroyed paintings by master Surrealist Salvador Dalí. An artist who certainly needs no introduction, Dalí was one of the most creative figures of the 20th century and left an indelible impression on every medium he touched. Beyond his world-renowned ability as a painter, the Catalan polymath practiced in fashion, cinema, opera, ballet, and writing.
