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The Baseball Bloggess
“Baseball was my Yoga, before Yoga was my Yoga.” Jackie Howell, the Baltimore Orioles fan behind The Baseball Bloggess, writes about the game and its rich history with a mixture of deep knowledge and humor.
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In-Depth Stories: Five Longform Features to Save for the Weekend
A roundup of some of the best longform storytelling recently published on WordPress.
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Retro Recipe Attempts
“Tasting the fare of yesteryear, the disastrous and the delicious.” Looking for a recipe for puddin’ cookies, Watergate Salad, or Frankie Doodle Dandy — with wonderful historical context? Look no further!
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We Are the Mutants
We Are the Mutants focuses on the history and analysis of Cold War-era popular and outsider culture, focusing on speculative, genre, pulp, proto-geek, cult, and occult media. Think post-apocalyptic fiction to space disco — and much more.
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“And in the Darkness Bind Them”
At We Are the Mutants, editor-in-chief K.E. Roberts traces the history of the first Lord of the Rings paperbacks — and J.R.R. Tolkien’s resistance to them — and the establishment of fantasy as a popular genre.
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Full Frontispiece
Why judge a book by its cover when you can use the frontispiece instead? Illustrations and humor, pulled up from the depths of literary history.
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Victorians and Their Cats
“Day 246 of my imprisonment. My spirit is broken. I have succumbed to the affections of my human overlords. Even my heterochromia brings me no joy. Life is meaningless…” A brief history of Victorians and their cats, through art.
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Kate Davies Designs
Kate Davies, based in the Scottish Highlands, is a designer, knitter, yarn-maker, historian, and avid walker. On her site she writes about her wide-ranging interests, and shares tutorials and patterns for avid knitters.
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FoodimentaryAt Foodimentary, every day is a cause for celebration (of delicious food). Focusing on one dish a day, the site is a fun destination for food history and culinary trivia.
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Dare Not to Speak the Name: The Foul Art of Plagiarism in Cookery Books
Culinary historian Cynthia D. Bertelsen explores the plagiarism of cookbook authors, from Martha Stewart to Hannah Glasse.
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Lyudmila Pavlichenko: The Deadliest Female Sniper in History
Rejected Princesses illustrates the stories of “women too awesome, awful, or offbeat for kids’ movies.” In this installment, learn about Soviet sniper Lyudmila Pavlichenko, her military career, and her friendship with Eleanor Roosevelt.
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Lost Highway
“This was where we’d started the trip to space, and it was where space, or the idea of space, came crashing back down to us.” On a road trip to Area 51 and the great American Southwest, a lost writer ponders aliens, archaeology, and the atomic bomb.
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25 Moments That Changed America
At TIME, historians nominate 25 turning points that changed the nation in the twentieth century.
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Abandoned, Not Forgotten: A Look at the Haunting Beauty of Modern Ruins
A look at bloggers and photographers who document the disappearing traces of everyday 20th-century life.
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“How could we know the facts, the answers, the future? How could we protect each other from the fear? We couldn’t. And what has been left behind, now that the votes are counted, is a country divided and reeling from being torn apart.”
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