The Met, 1897-99 (via) - an excellent start to a fabulous Steampunk ensemble. My favorites are the original gowns that unknowingly have that Steampunk flavor. I haven't been working on my wedding gown. I'm quite terrible and maybe lazy, but I just haven't felt like it.
I made myself a Victorian bicycle sweater out of 100 % wool knit fabric and there was enough to make a matching beret, too!
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What you should know about the slave trade and its abolition.
Did a race of Human giants walk the earth before us? The American Indians think so. If they existed, who were they, what were they doing, and why is it a secret now? Forbidden History.
Art aficionados like to pretend that there's a very specific and complex science behind interpreting paintings. But as these humorous tweets reveal, the hidden messages are often pretty obvious, not to mention pretty funny!
US history textbooks have been slow to incorporate black humanity in their slavery narratives. It’s a mirror of American politics.
Rediscovering an American Community of Color: The Photographs of William Bullard is currently being displaced at the Worcester Art Museum in Massachusetts
A closer look at the fashion in Turn.
Did you shag that numpty?
Some of you may be wondering how, when, and where to wear the new
Photographer Roger Minick set out in the 80s and 90s to capture the essence of road tripping in America, dedicating his project, Sightseer Series, as a nostalgic time capsule to the era.
Lately I've been working on a waistcoat to go under my Snowshill riding habit. I really love the look of this menswear inspired style, but before jumping in, I needed to take a closer look at the evolution of the waistcoat throughout the 18th century. Lancret,
Bearded woman. 1880s
In order to garner sympathy - and funds - from rich white northerners, abolitionists used a propaganda campaign featuring four former child slaves with mixed-race ancestry and pale complexions.
New York's first millionaires made their impact during the Gilded Age from the 1870s to the turn of the twentieth century. A new book captures the pictures from this glamorous era.
From Mae West to Eva Green, the cinema archetype of the ‘femme fatale’ has fascinated and frightened audiences since Hollywood’s golden age. But nearly a century before Sharon Stone bore all as the deadly seductress Catherine Tramell in Basic Instinct, silent-film actress Theda Bara, the silver scre
"Bob and his Fiddle" in old Georgia. Music born in adversity. Once "freed", many of the former slaves and their children had no where to go. These are the houses built mostly during the "Slave Years" --- before the Civil War, and Lincoln's "Emancipation Proclamation" . *************************************** "......On Tuesday, July 30, 2008, the U.S. House of Representatives issued an unprecedented apology to black Americans for the institution of slavery, and the subsequent Jim Crows laws that for years discriminated against blacks as second-class citizens in American society......" NPR www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=93059465&am... Okinawa_Soba has a lot original images of the descendants of slaves in America, as well as several showing actual slaves who were "freed" during the America's Civil War. To match these images, he also has a box of 19th Century and early 20th Century images of "Black Africa", showing the tribes, roots, and culture that is now a universe away from the modern day existence of "African Americans". Behind the faces of these few images I'm posting here, are lives and experiences that most White people in America will never understand -- either then, or now. [This caption is the same for all. If you have read this far, no need to do so for all the others with the same picture Title]
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