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A Peek Inside Jim Henson's Creature Shop, Where Big Bird Is Made
Libraries Feel Attacked — But Not Like the 'Freedom Libraries' of 1964
A Peek Inside Jim Henson's Creature Shop, Where Big Bird Is Made
Smithsonian Magazine: The whimsical workshop where Sesame Street characters and deadMau5 helmets are designed and built is now open for public tours for the first time in history. Here's how the creative hub ended up in a former car showroom in Queens.
How Faye Emerson Launched TV's First Late-Night Show
Libraries Feel Attacked — But Not Like the 'Freedom Libraries' of 1964
A Peek Inside Jim Henson's Creature Shop, Where Big Bird Is Made
LateNighter: Actress and FDR daughter-in-law Faye Emerson laid the foundation for late-night television. Her smart, sophisticated persona was a marked contrast to the funny men who followed — and may have been her undoing.
Libraries Feel Attacked — But Not Like the 'Freedom Libraries' of 1964
Libraries Feel Attacked — But Not Like the 'Freedom Libraries' of 1964
Libraries Feel Attacked — But Not Like the 'Freedom Libraries' of 1964
The Washington Post: Community-run freedom libraries sprang up in the South as an alternative to segregated public libraries in the 1960s. Most of them were bombed or burned by the end of the Freedom Summer of 1964.
Dorothy Thompson, the Journalist Who Warned the World About Hitler
Dorothy Thompson, the Journalist Who Warned the World About Hitler
Libraries Feel Attacked — But Not Like the 'Freedom Libraries' of 1964
Mental Floss: A look into the life of writer Dorothy Thompson, the first journalist expelled from Nazi Germany who stood up to fascists at home in America and abroad.
Where Were All the Pregnant Women in Classic Movies?
Dorothy Thompson, the Journalist Who Warned the World About Hitler
The Curious Curriculum of the 1950s Red Cross 'Bride Schools'
Vulture: Movies from the 1930s through the 1960s avoided any real mention of pregnancy or childbirth, skipping right to the instant family. Why did Hays Code censors care so much about obscuring this uniquely female experience?
The Curious Curriculum of the 1950s Red Cross 'Bride Schools'
Dorothy Thompson, the Journalist Who Warned the World About Hitler
The Curious Curriculum of the 1950s Red Cross 'Bride Schools'
Atlas Obscura: After World War II, the Red Cross established "bride schools" in Japan to prepare wives of American soldiers for their new life in the US. But the lessons were actually about projecting American feminine ideals.