Tuesday 21 March 2017 at 15:20
A scathing article exposing the horrors of a the biggest slave auction in American history.
Source: http://publicdomainreview.org/collections/what-became-of-the-slaves-on-a-georgia-plantation-1863/
Friday 17 March 2017 at 18:46
The songs of one of Ireland's best known tenors, renowned for lending his superior diction and breath control to a whole range of operatic and popular songs.
Source: http://publicdomainreview.org/collections/john-mccormack-recordings-1911-1940/
Tuesday 14 March 2017 at 19:15
Some of the earliest examples of calligrams found in a 9th-century astronomical manuscript on the constellations.
Source: http://publicdomainreview.org/collections/aratea-making-pictures-with-words-in-the-9th-century/
Thursday 9 March 2017 at 18:04
One of the very first screen depictions of the now familiar Napoleon delusion trope — in which a mentally ill person believes themselves to be Napoleon Bonaparte.
Source: http://publicdomainreview.org/collections/maniac-chase-1904/
Wednesday 8 March 2017 at 16:22
Donald S. Lopez, Jr. looks at Voltaire's early reflections on Buddhism and how, in his desire to separate the Buddha's teachings from the trappings of religion, the French Enlightenment thinker prefigured an approach now familiar in the West.
Source: http://publicdomainreview.org/2017/03/08/voltaire-and-the-buddha/
Tuesday 7 March 2017 at 17:42
The excellent engravings from Johann Zahn's early and comprehensive account of the function and usage of a number of optical instruments, including the camera obscura and magic lantern.
Source: http://publicdomainreview.org/collections/images-from-johann-zahns-oculus-artificialis-1685/
Thursday 2 March 2017 at 17:02
Xavier de Maistre's delightful parody of contemporary travel-writing written while under a six-week house-arrest in Turin.
Source: http://publicdomainreview.org/collections/a-journey-round-my-room-1794-1871/
Wednesday 1 March 2017 at 18:03
Stunning set of portraits of Norwegians in national folk costume taken by the Danish photographer Marcus Selmer.
Source: http://publicdomainreview.org/collections/marcus-selmers-photographs-of-19th-century-norwegians/
Tuesday 28 February 2017 at 18:44
The natural history of the world from the point of view of a personified pebble.
Source: http://publicdomainreview.org/collections/the-strange-adventures-of-a-pebble-1921/
Wednesday 22 February 2017 at 13:27
With his enormous hair, painted face, and dainty attire, the so-called "macaroni" was a common sight upon the streets and ridiculing prints of 1770s London. Dominic Janes explores how with this new figure — and the scandalous sodomy trials with which the stereotype became entwined — a widespread discussion of same-sex desire first entered the public realm, long before the days of Oscar Wilde.
Source: http://publicdomainreview.org/2017/02/22/a-queer-taste-for-macaroni/