Historically sound

Welcome! I'm a graduate historian who sticks varying interesting things here from time to time. Hope you enjoy.

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Goodbye

I’m sure many of you have noticed, but this blog has become well and truly inactive.

Sorry for my absence. Life has drawn me away from my degree - adult life is goddamn weird, I’ll tell you that much. My passion for history hasn’t wavered, however my day to day time for it has.

This blog has had about 3-4 years of its own history, now, and it’s been a pleasure.

I still actively blog at http://mysteryho.tumblr.com/, regularly about my interests in history, art, film, and the like, so if you’d like to keep in touch, or get in touch if you’re someone I’ve yet to meet, please feel free to do so.

Thanks for being here with me and caring about the past. This blog will remain an archive to look at in the future.

“People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them.” - James A. Baldwin

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Alex J. Rota, Installing models for the Forest Floor exhibit, American Museum of natural history, 1958

: images.library.amnh.org

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Soldier of the Royal Fusiliers wearing a German (Württemberg regiment) helmet, after the capture of Thiepval on 26 September 1916. Note the Luger beside him: a much-loved war trophy.

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Hunting Sword

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Germany

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If you have some extra time today, please check out Grey Villet's photographs of Mildred & Richard Loving, whose plea to the Supreme Court resulted in interracial marriage becoming legal in 16 states on June 12th, 1967. Villet’s photographs were part of an exhibition at ICP, and became part of “The Loving Story" documentary. Happy Loving Day everyone!

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The Seattle Daily Times, March 23, 1955

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20 Franc French empire coin, 1852-1870

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An ornate 6 shot wheel-lock revolving musket decorated with gold, silver, ivory, and bone.  Originates from Russia, 16th century, possibly restored or added onto in the 18th or 19th century.

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Rare Photos Of The Soviet Space Program From Gagarin To Intercosmos

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Engraved Zippo lighters from the Vietnam War.

~ Cowan’s Auctions

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A gold and silver decorated Cossack’s miquelet pistol, 19th century.

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Miyoshi Umeki with the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role in Sayonara (1957).  She is the first and only Asian woman to win an Academy Award for acting.

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Gloria Richardson pushes a national guard bayonet out of her face during a 1963 civil rights protest in Maryland.

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Today in history: February 19, 1942 - President Roosevelt signs Executive Order 9066, leading to the incarceration of almost 120,000 Japanese Americans in concentration camps during World War II.

The war-time measures applied to Japanese Americans in a sweeping way, uprooting entire communities particularly on the West Coast. Afterward, Japanese Americans fought a legal battle against the concentration camps all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court. The original Supreme Court decision which upheld the camps in the interests of ‘national security’ was later vacated (overturned on a technicality), but the Supreme Court never ruled that the camps were unconstitutional. After a decades-long battle, in 1988 the U.S. government was forced to formally apologize for the internment, admitting that government actions were based on “race prejudice, war hysteria, and a failure of political leadership.”

The U.S. government eventually disbursed more than $1.6 billion in reparations to Japanese Americans who had been interned and their descendents. Today Japanese American organizations on the West Coast organize an annual Day of Remembrance to mark this date and to continue to raise consciousness so that such attacks on civil liberties never happen again to Japanese Americans or oppressed groups.

See Fight Back News coverage of this year’s Day of Remembrance 

(image: sign ordering Japanese Americans to concentration camps)

Via Freedom Road Socialist Organization (Fight Back!)

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Robert Rauschenberg and Jasper Johns.

Check out Jonathan Katz' beautiful essay from Significant Others: Creativity & Intimate Partnership, The Art of Code, for a unique look at LGBT couples in art, as well as some perspective on the influence of Rauschenberg and Johns' relationship and sexualities on their respective work and careers.

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Genoese Medicine Chest, 1562-1566

This magnificent and unique medicine chest was made for Vincenzo Giustiniani (d. 1570), the last Genoese governor of the island of Chios in the eastern Aegean Sea. He ruled Chios from 1562 until the Turks expelled the Genoese in 1566 after an occupation of some two hundred years. On a box from the middle drawer is painted the symbol of Chios – a black eagle above a three-towered castle. The chest contains 126 bottles and pots for drugs, some of which still have their original contents. These include rhubarb powder, ointment for worms, juniper water and mustard oil. The chest measures nearly a metre long. The painting on the inside of the lid is a later addition. It remained in the Giustiniani family until it was bought by Henry Wellcome in 1924

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Smith and Wesson .44 New Model No. 3 Single-Action Revolver, serial no. 25120, decorated by Tiffany & Co.

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