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Posted inFilm

How Those Who Lived Through the Holocaust Have Testified in Film

by Justine Smith July 20, 2021December 30, 2021

While narratives depicting the Holocaust present fixed versions of events, testimonial films tend to be more open-ended, and pose more profound questions.

Posted inFilm

How Movies Have “Witnessed” the Holocaust Over the Decades

by Justine Smith July 19, 2021December 30, 2021

Since cameras were first pointed at the concentration camps, filmmakers have faced challenges in how to respectfully and meaningfully depict atrocity.

Posted inFilm

The Forgotten “Black Woodstock” of 1969

Avatar photo by Kambole Campbell July 1, 2021July 1, 2021

Summer of Soul, Questlove’s directorial debut, seeks to resurrect the memory of the Harlem Cultural Festival, a vital touchstone of Black music.

Posted inFilm

“Don’t Fuck With the Jews” and Other Moments of Muscular Judaism on Film

by Mark Asch June 21, 2021December 30, 2021

Cinema’s thorny depictions of Israeli military action reflects the swift shift in Jewish identity around questions of oppression.

Posted inFilm

Raoul Peck’s Frustratingly Incomplete Treatise on Colonialism

Avatar photo by Aditya Iyer June 13, 2021June 14, 2021

For all its bluntness, Exterminate All the Brutes never once utters the words “rape” or “capitalism.”

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Archaeologists Locate Site of Harriet Tubman’s Family Home

Avatar photo by Valentina Di Liscia April 21, 2021April 21, 2021

A small coin dated 1808 led archaeologists to identify the area as the former site of the plantation where Tubman lived before escaping enslavement in 1849.

Posted inArt

Cupid Shoots Through Millennia of Art

by Hakim Bishara February 12, 2021February 13, 2021

The god of love and desire has fascinated and inspired artists since antiquity.

Posted inFilm

Two Women Fall in Love in 1800s Upstate New York

Avatar photo by Dan Schindel February 11, 2021February 10, 2021

The World to Come distinguishes itself from the recent spate of historical queer romances with poetic dialogue and a dreamy tone.

Posted inFilm

A Funhouse Mirror Telling of Canadian History

Avatar photo by Dan Schindel December 10, 2020

The Twentieth Century is a surreal, irreverent anti-biopic of Canadian Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King.

Posted inOpinion

Let’s Preserve Acts of History, Not Racist Monuments

Avatar photo by Jillian McManemin September 21, 2020November 5, 2020

We do not need to physically preserve these objects to preserve history. The Toppled Monuments Archive seeks to reroute the impulse to preserve these objects altogether.

Posted inArt

Satisfy Your Wanderlust With Captivating Globes From the 17th and 18th Centuries

by Sarah Rose Sharp May 4, 2020May 4, 2020

The British Library uploaded 3-D scans of its collection of celestial and terrestrial globes.

Posted inArt

A Database of Fugitive Slave Ads Reveals Thousands of Untold Resistance Stories

Avatar photo by Allison Meier April 4, 2018

Freedom on the Move from Cornell University is the first major digital database of fugitive slave ads from North America.

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