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“The word abortion was taboo. And I thought: That’s crazy. … I’m going to talk about abortion! ABORTION!”

Sunday, May 4, 1969 –  Late afternoon Tear gas lingers in the soft spring air, rocks and bricks are strewn through the streets, all residue of last night’s riot. Mifflanders still want a block party; Mayor Bill Dyke still says no and refuses to issue a permit. Hundreds of kids are hanging out around Mifflin and Bassett streets, hundreds of cops are on their way. As the crowd builds, Ald. Paul Soglin is arrested a second time, for “unlawful assembly” – while standing by himself near h...

For most Americans the terms “environmentalist” and “liberal” are more or less synonymous. For many historians the set of ideas called environmentalism and the set of ideas called liberalism are similarly—and for similar reasons—connected. But it is not at all clear why these associations make sense. The environmental historian Roderick Nash provides one explanation for the pairing of environmentalism and liberalism in The Rights of Nature, where he argues that “one can reg...

Frank Leslie’s Illustrated Weekly and the beautiful Holiday. Artists include Maxfield Parrish, Howard Chandler Christie, Charles Dana Gibson and even Alberto Vargas. The first American magazines appeared in 1741. By 1860 there were over a thousand titles in print, ballyhooing and cajoling Americans to repent, reform, learn, expand, and do everything faster and faster. The amazing energy of the United States is all here – educationalism, advertising, news, religion and quite a lot of hooey....

  Theres been no shortage of people coming forward who claim to have inside information about the assassination of JFK. Two of these people contacted the Garrison investigation in 1967 - Richard Case Nagell and David Kroman. Nagell would go on and become a staple of conspiracy theorists while Kroman has been largely forgotten. But their stories intertwine, at least at the beginning. Garrisons office received an intriguing letter i...

The battle over the right to access People’s Park in Berkeley began over 50 years ago, but it never really ended. Now, UC Berkeley plans to develop the

S. Clay Wilson, Taboo-Breaking Underground Cartoonist, Dies at 79 His drawings were so outrageous that, on first encountering them, his fellow cartoonist R. Crumb recalled feeling that “suddenly my own work seemed insipid.” S. Clay Wilson’s cover for Zap Comix No. 3; he also contributed a 10-page story to the issue. His influence on fellow underground cartoonists was evident and ubiquitous.Credit...S. Clay Wilson/Zap Comix Feb. 9, 2021 S. Clay Wilson, the most scabrous and rollicking of t...

Exhibition at the Grolier Club presents highlights from the Collection of Steven Lomazo, MD Fire!!: A Quarterly Devoted to Younger Negro Artists, volume 1, number 1, November 1926. New York: The Fire!! Press. One of three known copies of this important Harlem Renaissance publication, signed by the contributors. Collection of Dr. Steven Lomazow. NEW YORK, NY .- Reflecting the broad spectrum of American culture, printed magazines from the 18th through the 21st centuries have both driven and docum...

"The only American newspapers that do not leave me in the grip of a profound physical conviction that the oxygen has been cut off from my brain, very probably by an Associated Press wire …," she begins in an essay that goes on to criticize traditional news outlets, including the wire service carrying this review, for pretending that there is such a thing as neutral, unbiased, objective reporting. That article, "Alicia and the Underground Press," was a snarky ode to alternative newspapers in t...