Monocle1h
50 years of ‘Decanter’, Japan’s Stationery Awards and Monocle in Paris
This week on ‘The Stack’ we speak with Amy Wislocki, editor of celebrated wine magazine ‘Decanter’. Plus: the winners of ...
The Black librarian who rewrote the rules of power, gender and passing as white
Just Because I am a Librarian doesn’t mean I have to dress like one.” With this breezy pronouncement, Belle da Costa Greene handily differentiated herself from most librarians. She stood out for other ...
Smithsonian Magazine21h
The Trailblazing Black Librarian Who Rewrote the Rules of Power, Gender and Racial Passing
Belle da Costa Greene, the first director of the Morgan Library, was a Black woman who passed as white in the early 20th ...
Buffalo Rising1d
History Secrets of Buffalo’s Gilded Age : Buffalo’s Crime of the Century
Love & Marriage Today we will begin to confront what is arguably Buffalo’s greatest unsolved mystery—the February 1903 murder ...
The Chronicle of Philanthropy2d
How Nonprofits Can Build a New ‘Progressive Era’ in a Second Gilded Age
Jane Addams showed how the seeds of social change can be planted at the local level even as the wealthy gain power and ...
Miami's Community Newspapers on MSN3d
Gables author Stuart McGregor brings America's Gilded Age to life in new book
Several decades ago, many of us enjoyed watching Robin Leach's television series "Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous" and, ...
The American Conservative4d
The DOGE of the 1880s
If congressional investigators today went to see such problems firsthand, Congress would feel greater urgency in cutting the ...