Twentieth Century
Before Walt Disney…
A decade before Walt Disney released his first animated short, “Alice’s Day at the Sea” in 1924, illustrator Louis Glackens (1866-1933) created trailblazing animated shorts featuring mermaids, anthropomorphic beasts, and political satire. His career has often been treated as a footnote to that of his younger brother, Ashcan School artist William J. Glackens.[1] Both Glackens…
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Hopping for Sufferage
I’m spending some time looking at the women’s suffrage movement—not the big sweeping arc of the movement, the major events or the big names, but the smaller stories within the story.[1] I’m finding some fascinating stuff. But the most unusual thing I’ve found so far is a fundraising event called the hopperie. Held at Luna…
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1925: A Year in Review
In historical hindsight, the big event in 1925 was Adolf Hitler’s publication of Mein Kampf and re-organization of the National Socialist party[1] to emphasize the the extreme nationalism that is a common element of fascist political philosophy rather than its original socialist leanings. In fact, in 1925, the Nazis were not yet a significant political…
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