"A Journey through every Billboard top 5 hit to find music’s greatest era." https://pudding.cool/projects/music-history/ The Billboard Top 5 for every week between October 18th, 1958 and April 13th, 2019.
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Mike Duncan’s Revolutions Podcast
Mike Duncan's Revolutions Podcast gives a broad overview of revolutions, the most recent is on The Mexican Revolution.
Cyber Brief: Cryptolog | National Security Archive
"Five years ago, the National Security Agency (NSA) released 136 issues of its internal Cryptolog periodical spanning 1974 through 1997. The collection offered a look into the some of the discussions being held within one of America’s most secretive intelligence agencies. Today the GWU-based National Security Archive is providing a complete index of all 1,504 … Continue reading Cyber Brief: Cryptolog | National Security Archive
The History of the World: Every Year – YouTube
“Seeing White” series on Scene on Radio
"Seeing White" is a 14 part series on the Scene on Radio podcast exploring the construction of white identity in the United States and the institutional structures of white supremacy that underpin it.
“Man” by Steve Cutts
Freedom vs. Sovereignty
"The reward for accepting unpredictability is meaning. Unlike the abyss faced by makers, the plurality of other humans who are the object of action don’t just stare back. Sometimes they accept your invitation to play on; they join you in continuing the game. To act, in the Arendt sense, is to issue a call to … Continue reading Freedom vs. Sovereignty
The Secret History of Dune
"...part of Herbert’s genius lay in his willingness to reach for more idiosyncratic sources of inspiration. The Sabres of Paradise (1960) served as one of those sources, a half-forgotten masterpiece of narrative history recounting a mid-19th century Islamic holy war against Russian imperialism in the Caucasus... ...Why is Blanch’s influence on Dune worth recognizing? Celebrating … Continue reading The Secret History of Dune
Ben Grierson, Equinophobic U.S. Civil War Cavalry Hero
"If you grew up in church, you get that story in a hot second: He was one of the Elect, horse-wise. God got him kicked, marked with the hoofprint to tell him he’d have to crawl to the ol’ rugged hoss, like it or not, and added the horse-phobia to make it more interesting. Although … Continue reading Ben Grierson, Equinophobic U.S. Civil War Cavalry Hero
Roman Roads as Subway Map
via Sasha Trubetskoy
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