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A near impossible literacy test Louisiana used to suppress the black vote

The Book of Kells, now digitized and available online

The reason why music is getting worse

Omni, the Iconic Sci-Fi Magazine, Digitized in High-Resolution (2017)

Japan’s Temple-Builder Kongō Gumi, Has Survived Nearly 1,500 Years

The First Medieval Electronic Instrument Plays Sounds of Lutes and More

The 18th-century French media stoked a werewolf panic

The Roads of Ancient Rome Visualized in the Style of Modern Subway Maps

Medieval Bologna was full of tall towers

J.G. Ballard predicted the rise of social media (2016)

Before Photoshop, Soviets Mastered Erasing People from Photographs and History

The Getty makes nearly 88k art images free to use

French artists in 1899 envisioned what life would look like in the year 2000

Isaac Asimov Predicts the Future in 1982

How the FBI targeted Camus, and then Sartre after the JFK assassination (2013)

Auroratone, a psychedelic 1940s film that helped WWII vets overcome PTSD

In 1886, the US commissioned watercolor paintings of every known fruit (2019)

Daisugi, the Japanese technique of growing trees out of other trees (2020)

Chomsky explains why nobody is a moral relativist

Kraftwerk issued their own pocket calculator synthesizer (2019)

“The most beautiful of all printed books,” the Kelmscott Chaucer

When Ursula K. Le Guin and Philip K. Dick Went to High School Together (2016)

Home Taping Is Killing Music: When the music industry waged war on the cassette

Download Instructions for More Than 6,800 Lego Kits at the Internet Archive

The LSD Museum (2021)

Aleister Crowley and William Butler Yeats get into an occult battle (2016)

A Student Writes a Rejection Letter Rejecting Harvard’s Rejection Letter (1981)

Noam Chomsky on ChatGPT: High-Tech Plagiarism, Way of Avoiding Learning

Bell Telephone Launched a Mobile Phone During the 1940s

Thelonious Monk’s Tips for Musicians (1960)

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