The Public Domain Review

Unique series of maps showing a particular empire’s knowledge revealed through a mass of broiling black cloud.

On the evening of May 31, 1921, several thousand white citizens and authorities began to violently attack the prosperous Black community of Greenwood in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Karlos K. Hill investigates the disturbing photographic legacy of this massacre and the resilience of Black Wall Street’s residents.

In zodiac man illustrations, astrological signs appear alongside the parts of the body they were thought to influence.

Editor Adam Green answers some questions about Affinities, offering a sneak peek at its inner workings and the idea behind it.

Dorothy Levitt’s practical, how-to guide for those who wanted to take to the roads, but did not quite know how.

At the intersection of surfing and medieval cathedrals, from the contents of a suitcase, Melissa McCarthy stages a plot that walks its way across paranoia, language, and the pursuit of knowledge.

In a 1870 paper, Hubert Airy became the first to attempt to explicitly visualise the scintillating scotomata of his migraine.

Being in debt was once an artful promenade — the process of eluding creditors through disguise and deceit. Erika Vause explores a forgotten financial history: the pervasive humor that once accompanied the literature and visual culture of debt.

A series of six lithographic dreamworlds inspired by the works of Edgar Allan Poe.

This is a paradox in the cocktail of qualities that define sprezzatura — the achievement of eloquence and honesty through deception and concealment.