Our home decorating choices can reveal hidden interiors of American cultural society.
Parlors, Living Rooms, and Zoom Spaces: Are We Moving Towards a Post-Personality World?
The Leaking Pen
Eastern State Penitentiary's most famous escape attempt as told by one of its own...in poetic verse!
Quotable Pennsylvania: The Poets
Poetry captures the beauty seen in Pennsylvania...and more.
“We had our music with us:” Does Recording Music Change its Value?
Did radio kill the phonograph star? Did phonographs kill the local music stars?
Thoreau Imagines The Greatest History Never Written
"Imagine what they might write..."
The Littlest Models: Harry Whittier Frees’ Animal Photography
They're much more than cute kittens and puppies...
Getting to Know the Culture Industry
With lecture, slides, and further readings.
Maryland Yearbook Ephemera Fun
Old yearbooks are the. best.
John Haberle: A Counterfeit Artist
This French painting style fooled many an eye...
A Fiddler, a Poet, and a Graveyard: The Spoon River Anthology’s Happier Poetry
In a collection of poetry known for its bleak outlook on rural life, there are some rays of light.
Soap Sandwich (James Thurber on Daytime Radio)
A comical look at the origins of the soap opera.
A Cartoon Takes on the Third Reich: Disney’s Chicken Little (1943)
This isn't your grandma's Disney...but wait, it is!
Innovation Behind the Camera: Stop Motion and Other Film Special Effects
Edwin Porter developed many of the techniques we still see in the movies today.
Boxing and Other Sports: It’s Personal(ality)
A great athlete is more than just skill and strength.
Combat on the Screen and on the Page
Are there any movies that portray war accurately?
Another Century 