38 posts tagged with History by hippybear.
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Neither of them really need any introduction....
Classicist Mary Beard [Wikipedia] is apparently well known for studying Ancient Rome. Comedian David Mitchell has read a lot about the British monarchy. Between them they can cover Julius Caesar to Elizabeth I, and they sat down together for a conversation for How To Academy in Rulers and Power | Mary Beard and David Mitchell [1h13m].
Max's South Seas Hideaway, Grand Rapids, Michigan
Is This The Greatest Tiki Bar In The World? [46m] It probably is because the guy who created it spent YEARS purchasing tiki from all over the history of tiki bars, having some custom made, and designing a space that is a living museum as well as a thriving party joint. Here's NPR from 2016 discussing Let's Talk Tiki Bars: Harmless Fun Or Exploitation? because this is a loaded topic. But I hope we can discuss the amazing bar in Michigan most of all! [more inside]
Detroit's Music Scene
Motor City's Burning: Detroit from Motown to the Stooges [1h, 2008, BBC] Is a look at the history of Detroit through the lens of music, from John Lee Hooker to Eminem. It's a really interesting scope through which to view this city.
Believe it or not, people once actually talked about Generation X
Okay, so there's a bug in the bottom corner and a timecode and a pesky watermark, but this MTV News special feature about Generation X from 1991 [50m] is still pretty amazing. Narrated by Kurt Loder.
Bebe Neuwirth [and Chip Zien] Walks Down Memory Lane
Playbill gets Bebe Neuwirth to sit down and talk about her history in theater. Two-time Tony winner Bebe Neuwirth discusses Chicago, A Chorus Line, and her Broadway return in Cabaret. [... and so much more, 40m] She is so full of joy and thrill about her career, it exudes through the screen and runs all over the place. Watch with care. [more inside]
Notation Must Die!
Notation Must Die: The Battle For How We Read Music [1h15m] has had me fascinated and thrilled with new information since I started watching it. Even if you know nothing about musical notation, you might also find this history and evolution and dissection of those weird 🎶 fascinating.
Clara Belle Williams
Clara Belle Williams was born in Plum, TX in October 1885 [!]. She attended undergrad in Prairie View TX, graduating in 1908. After a marriage, three sons, and a widowing, she enrolled at University Of Chicato and finally at New Mexico College of Agriculture in 1928. Clara Belle Williams was [what is now known as] New Mexico State University's first black graduate [nmsu.edu link, primary text link], graduating in 1937 with a degree in English at the age of 51. She was the Las Cruces School System's first black school teacher, and she forged a path into a community that had very little black population during a time long before it was expected. Here is an interview with Clara Belle Williams and her family from 1980 [1h31m. VHS transfer, long but amazing] [more inside]
Into The Heart Of U2
As they become a legacy act, doing a lengthy residency in Las Vegas, and are becoming ever more deprecated across younger generations triggered mainly by their Apple Album Distribution debacle, U2 fans Bill See [Divine Weeks frontman] and Melody Muraca [early U2 Fanzine founder] have sat down to record the Into The Heart Of U2 Podcast [YouTube playlist link]. Album by album, tour by tour, with a lot of research and background information that I didn't know before... This might be the way for you to process your U2 fandom or your U2 mourning. Apple Podcasts Link. [more inside]
Sub Berlin : The Story Of Tresor
Sub Berlin - The Story of Tresor [1h24m, mixed language with embedded English subtitles] is a 2012 documentary about the Berlin nightclub [Wikipedia] that started before the Wall came down, and was one of the defining actors in the evolution of Techno in the early Nineties.
Connections
I just yesterday discovered that all three seasons of James Burke's history series Connections [Wikipedia] are available on the Internet Archive. That's 40 episodes for streaming or download. This comes along with news [ArsTechnica] that Curiosity Stream has a new short series Connections With James Burke [Trailer] now on their platform. Previously, from 2010.
Monster Madness
A four part documentary about horror film up through the Eighties: Monster Madness Part One: The Golden Age Of Horror Film [1h17m] Part Two: Mutants, Space Invaders, and Drive-Ins [1h32m] Part Three: The Gothic Revival Of Horror [1h22m] Part Four: The Counterculture To Blockbusters [1h2m] I'm hard-pressed to think of a more comprehensive look at these early eras of this genre of cinema.
White, a blank page or canvas, his favorite, so many possibilities
CUNY TV brings us Stephen Sondheim's Legacy, part of their Theater: All the Moving Parts series. It's an hour looking back at Sondheim, with the first half-hour in conversation with three Stephenstans [Sondheimistas?], and the second part with his official biographer and a CUNY music scholar.
I'd say he's like a grumpy pop culture protege of James Burke
I'd really only known Rich Hall [Wikipedia] from his appearances on BBC panel shows. It turns out, he has a whole career doing documentaries trying to explain the United States to a UK audience steeped in US mass media. Rich Hall's Red Menace [2019, 1h30m] begins with an atom bomb and follows the Cold War conflict between the US and the USSR as depicted in cinema and contrasting that with actual history. But he's done so many more! [more inside]
The Learning Channel
I'm going to post these in the order that Billiam posted them, but I think, for an old like me, they should really be watched in reverse order because that's chronological rather than working backward from modern outrage to historical corruption. Anyway: 1: TLC'S Biggest Lies [26m] 2: The TLC Iceberg [44m] 3: When TLC Killed “The Learning Channel” [29m]. I remember The Learning Channel, and 3 was like being reminded of watching my favorite pub burning down.
If the news is fake, then what is history?
Ian Hislop's Fake News - A True History (BBC) [60m] With his over 30 years on Have I Got News For You, and more years as editor of satirical magazine Private Eye, not to mention his status as a British icon of Standing Up To Power, he knows what is what, and presents the history (and the terrifying future) of fake news and news fakery.
The last century of LGBTQ+ history, two beams out of the prism
100 Years Of LGBT+ Music: From Ma Rainey To Lil Nas X [42m58s] comes from YouTube's AreTheyGay and, while it curiously skips over the 80s Europop gay invasion, draws a line from the early 1900s to today. Meanwhile, Kat Rowe has Terror And Vice: LA's Painful Gay History [35m], which covers the same time period, but has much more to do with the direct effect of the dominant culture on the queer underclass. [more inside]
This Is Not Gay Porn
Charles M. Holmes was a wealthy donor to many causes, including The Gay And Lesbian Victory Fund and Human Rights Campaign. He got his fortune by investing in the gay community by producing porn. Seed Money: The Chuck Holmes Story [1h6m] tells the full tale of Holmes and Falcon Video, and includes more (maybe) SFW gay porn scenes than you'd expect on YouTube. As ancillary material, please also have Making It Big, The History Of Gay Adult Film [1h26m], which overlaps with and is more general than the first film. [more inside]
The Great History Quiz - The Tudors
What happens when you get 6 historians together to throw factoids around about the Tudor monarchy? You get a delightful amount of informational fiddly bits presented in a fun format! The Great History Quiz: The Tudors [56m] is hosted by Kirsty Young and has Lucy Worsley and Dan Snow as team captains.
Goings On Below Stairs
Goings On Below Stairs [30m] uses actual diaries of servants and household members to recount how people lived their lives in service when they were not actively serving. Wonderful, fascinating stuff.
They went to a big World's Fair in the country with lots of room to play
What happens to all the stuff after a World's Fair? It's a question I hadn't really asked myself before, but After The Fair: The Legacy Of The 1964-65 NY World's Fair [1h41m] is a documentary (apparently from 2020) that gives a brief history of that famous World's Fair and then details what happened to various pavilions, entertainments, and other bits since the Fair closed. Delightful and informative in ways I was neither asking for nor expecting, If you like this kind of thing, you will LIKE this one.
A History Of Horror
A History of Horror is a three-part BBC documentary series by Mark Gatiss about horror in film. Frankenstein Goes To Hollywood, Home Counties Horror, The American Scream. Covering from Phantom Of The Opera through Halloween. Each episode is just about an hour. Previously, long ago.
The Overlooked Queer History of Medieval Christianity
"As historians, our role is not simply to regurgitate what was written, but to read between the lines. That’s the only way we’ll unearth the realities of subjects whose lives were either shielded by secrecy or erased, often on purpose, by the history that followed." - Roland Betancourt writing in Time Magazine.
From The Archives
There were no politicians or corporate sponsors when the first Pride parade rolled through San Francisco on June 25, 1972. Spirit Of 1972: Photos from the first S.F. Pride parade [San Francisco Chronicle]
ACT UP: A History Of AIDS/HIV Activism
It's Been A Minute with Sam Sanders breaks out of its usual form and talks to Sarah Schulman ACT UP: A History Of AIDS/HIV Activism [50m]. Transcript sadly not available, but some quotes from the interview on the page. [more inside]
Message of hope, or the possibility of hope
From the Los Angeles Review Of Books comes a long read in three parts by Michael Nava: Creating A Literary Culture: A Short, Selective, and Incomplete History of LGBT Publishing. Part I - Out from the Shadows: Beginning, 1940–1980, Part II - The Golden Age (1980–1995), Part III - Picking Up the Pieces: Queer Publishing Now [more inside]
A Night at the Sweet Gum Head
In A Night at the Sweet Gum Head, journalist Martin Padgett tells Atlanta’s overlooked queer history during the disco decade [Atlanta Magazine] A Q&A with the author and an excerpt from the book [includes a guest appearance from Burt Reynolds]. But Atlanta has so much more inside. [more inside]
"The assumption is that queer history begins at the city gates.”
The total percentage of rural queer Americans mirrors the percentage of rural Americans overall: around 15-20% of queer Americans live in rural areas, while around 19% of total Americans live rurally. Rural Queer History: Hidden in Plain Sight from The Daily Yonder ["Keep It Rural"]. [more inside]
Entrapment, Discrimination, Censorship. But...
Buffalo News brings you The struggles of Buffalo’s gay community through the '70s But... [more inside]
Film & Filming
BBC News looks at The LGBT history you probably didn't learn in school, a UK-centered look at LGBTQ lives in decades past.
Smithsonian Presents: Project Pride
Foregoing plans to launch Pride Month with live events across their network of museums, the Smithsonian presents Project Pride, a 2 hour video [YT link] which host Ari Shapiro introduces as a time capsule of LGBTQ Pride in 2020. Participants include Alex the Astronaut, Big Freedia, Bright Light Bright Light, Cameron Esposito, Courtney Barnett, Claud, Dorian Electra, Girl in Red, Indigo Girls, Jake Shears, Joy Oladokun, Kat Cunning, Madame Gandhi, mxmtoon, Nakhane, Pabllo Vittar, Pet Shop Boys, Roxane Gay, SOKO, Tig Notaro & Stephanie Allynne, VINCINT, and other guests. And the Smithsonian throws in their own historical context too. [more inside]
Charles A Libby, photographer of Spokane
Through His Eyes: It’s because of Charles A. Libby that we know what early Spokane looked like is a 2013 article about this extraordinary commercial photographer who's career spanned 7 decades and his negatives and their corresponding catalog books (photos for sale, after all) are all now housed at the Northwest Museum Of Arts And Culture (2015 article with many photo examples), and can (I believe now) all be seen online. Here's a very early (1903) photo from the online collection and here is one from 1966 taken along the same street. [more inside]
Even A Stopped Clock Is Right Twice A Day
Through random internet poking I found this page on the proverb "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day" which I found to be supremely interesting. I thought maybe you might also find it interesting.
Mandela Day, 100 years, explained
Trevor Noah spends about 8 minutes explaining exactly why Nelson Mandela's birthday is still observed in such a major way in his home country of South Africa, and also around the world.
Let's Cook History -- in five parts
I found this 5-part series Let's Cook History, which is just short of an hour each episode exploring cooking in different eras. You might start with the first episode (perhaps misnamed for $REASONS) The Roman Banquet. [more inside]
Victorian Slum House
Apologies if this content is US only, but PBS is currently running Victorian Slum House [link to first episode, 55m], which "takes viewers back to the British slums of the 1800s, where a group of modern-day families, couples and individuals recreate life in London'’s East End as their forbearers once lived between 1860-1900." [Ed. note: I rolled my eyes at it when I first saw it on the schedule but ended up watching it tonight and was impressed by its depth and emotional honesty.]
Worthwhile Holiday Weekend Viewing
In his new four-hour series, BLACK AMERICA SINCE MLK: AND STILL I RISE, Henry Louis Gates, Jr. embarks on a deeply personal journey through the last fifty years of African American history. Joined by leading scholars, celebrities, and a dynamic cast of people who shaped these years, Gates travels from the victories of the civil rights movement up to today, asking profound questions about the state of black America—and our nation as a whole. [more inside]
A Theme Study of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer History
The National Park Service has published LGBTQ America: A Theme Study of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer History in 32 chapters. Each page includes a .pdf link to a much longer exposition on the subject of the chapter. [more inside]
Gay History - Online Documentaries
A treasure trove of gay and lesbian documentaries to watch online. Our course begins with a brief overview. (9m05s) [more inside]
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