“Plunged Into Radio in a Big Way”

A Depression-era businessman reflects on the relationship between business, advertising, music, and our consumer society.

Getting to Know the Culture Industry

With lecture, slides, and further readings.

A Shopkeeper and a Historian

What can Marx teach us about history?

So Much Nostalgia!

Populism and the working class would like to discuss your yearnings for the 19th century.

Maryland Yearbook Ephemera Fun

Old yearbooks are the. best.

Soap Sandwich (James Thurber on Daytime Radio)

A comical look at the origins of the soap opera.

Currier and Ives and the Nostalgic Past

Nostalgia can be just as artificial and commodified as anything else.

Advertising Battlefield: Cigarettes v. Candy

This battle between sugar and tobacco was anything but sweet.