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more about #history more comments → saintestella: you know what amazing petticoats make me think of? the Pollyanna movie with Rudi Huxtable. i've never seen the Hayley Mills version and i don't want... more » BytheSea: They're crinolines, not petticoats. They wore them under those full party skirts and scotty dog skirts in the 60s to make them poof out. (eta: it cro... more » BetteD: Those images are absolutely breathtaking. Excuse me, I am now off to put a Sarah Vaughn album on the record player (yes I still have one of those!). more » ZemarSea Urchin: This makes me want to run home and pour over my mother's photo albums. My mother used to tell me stories while I, as a child, went through all the old... more » BrutallyHonestBabes (aka Mrs. Sarah.of.a.Lesser.Hobbit): Glorious. So very glorious. more » vamvaki_poulaki: I can't tell if #19 is a contemporary photo or vintage... more » lovelyivy: I still want petticoats to come back in style. I LOVED that style as a kid. Does anyone remember the movie Polly? A remake of Pollyanna with Rudy and... more » the glamwich: i've been looking for stuff like this for years! thank goodness for the internets. it kind of bridges the gap for someone [like me] who is crazy into... more » dandelionbrowne: See, this is why I feel like Mad Men is being thoroughly lazy. It's so easy to dismiss the history of people of color in this country. There's so mu... more » randomnessish: @picture 17: YaYa, is that you?? more » ♥AntiSocialSocialite♥: OH MY GOD! THIS IS MY BLOG! *falls to floor dead* more » History Major: Photo # 3 is so mesmerizing. I long for the days when people just dressed up to dress up with no particular purpose in mind. Sigh. more » AndPreciousLittleofThat: Great pictures, but one complaint. No guys. You ever seen a picture of Sam Cooke back in the day? Why no love for black men with style? more » nyc-caribbean-ragazza: I should call my next script, "Negro Romance." Love it. more » Zombie Ms. Skittles: Awesome! Y'all finally featured this blog. It took me so much by surprise when I first found it. I'm so used to seeing white girls in these types o... more » -
#oldiesbutgoodies
Now Playing: Vintage American Fashion With A Sepia Twist
B. Vikki Vintage is a blog (and an Etsy shop) highlighting vintage images of African Americans. After the jump, a walk through fashion history. More » -
#theydidit
Rosies Still Riveting After 60 Years
An article in today's New York Times today describes the efforts by women's groups and filmmakers to honor the women who took over posts at factories while men were deployed abroad for their service. More » -
#idiotbox
Requiem For The History Channel: A Nerd's Rant
Ancient Aliens? Dan Brown? 18th Century Carrie Bradshaws? I never thought I'd say, let alone write this, but: Give me Adolf Hitler - please.
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#obamarama
NY Times Reporters Trace Michelle Obama's Family History
After reading the NY Times' just-published "In First Lady's Roots, a Complex Path From Slavery," I felt conflicted. There is a lot to absorb. A lot to sift through. Michelle Robinson Obama's ancestry is complicated, glorious, and quintessentially African-American. More » -
#halloffame
Profile In Courage
Susan Travers may be the most amazing woman you've never heard of: an English socialite who became a Free French ambulance driver, she earned the Legion d'Honneur and become the only woman in the French Foreign Legion. [BBC] -
#wiggingout
Chloe's Cushion, Or The Cork Rump
This gallery of surreal 18th-century hair images is truly awe-inspiring. These may be satirical, but it's easy to believe that vermin actually did (as reported) sometimes make nests in women's wigs. [BibliOdyssey] -
#friendlyskies
Amelia Earhart Flew. She Wasn't An Angel.
A fascinating profile in the New Yorker tries to bring Amelia Earhart down to Earth. More » -
#noordinarytime
"Just Because I Was Female, They Wouldn't Let Me Parachute...I Still Feel Cross."
"It was the sort of interesting job men like to do and not let women in...But we were very fortunate. The war gave us an opportunity," says one of the remarkable women whose war experience is profiled in the Telegraph: More » -
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#warofwords
"So It Has Come."
This series of love letters between the author's parents in the dark days of 1939 England is a fascinating peek into lives, history - and the lost art of correspondence. [TimesUK] -
#catspajamas
"Attainment Of Flapperhood Is A Big And Serious Undertaking!"
Was the flapper a proto-feminist, or a betrayer of suffragettes? Or both? Or just having fun? (Also: sound familiar?) More » -
#oldiesbutgoodies
Eminent Victorians
Even though this ivory "Venus" was a Victorian anatomy-teaching tool, doesn't she look weirdly like a Medieval Madonna? She's part of a show called "Exquisite Bodies" at London's Wellcome Collection. [New Scientist] -
#kisstell
Blaming And Shaming: "The Whore Memoir"
These lurid 18th century tell-alls were a valuable weapon for women of ill-repute. More » -
#annalsofabsurdity
"Modish Slimness Causes A Divorce!"
Exactly one hundred years ago, the papers reported that a German woman had "defied" the husband who "forbade her to fade away." Instead? She "sacrificed 31 pounds to wear really fashionable gown and lost husband." [WashingtonCityPaper] -
#herstories
Earnestly-Titled Women's History Magazine Looks Awesome
A history mag? We're with you. A women's history mag? You had us at hello. And it's smart and handsome, too? Swell! It's called...HerStoria? Aye, there's the rub. But don't let it deter you! More » -
#wantads
"Show Your Moral Courage, Young Ladies, And Write"
This blog, composed of 19th Century personal ads, is one of the most fascinating we've seen in many a moon. [AdvertisingforLove via Tressugar] -
#diggdithedark
A Happy Death
Scientists have discovered the cause of the macabre "grinning corpses" found preserved in Sardinia: the hemlock water-dropwort plant, possessed of a Botox-like effect, which ancient Phoenician colonists "administered to elderly [What? -Ed] and criminals before ritualistically killing them." [LiveScience] -
#janeaustenbookclub
Possibility Of Possible Jane Austen Suitor Possibly Inflames Fans
A new book, Jane Austen: An Unrequited Love claims that Jane Austen might have been in love with a guy who might have been this guy and that she and her sister might have fought over him! Squee! More » -
#ontherocks
"Who Wants The Hand That Rocks The Cradle Mixing Whisky Sours?"
Women and alcohol? Horrors! Cock-tale of woe, straight-up. More » -
#mysteriesofhistory
The Search For Cleopatra's Tomb
Archaeologists in Egypt believe they are close to uncovering the long lost tomb of Cleopatra, the legendary Egyptian queen, an archaeological find which they believe "could be the most important discovery of the 21st century," More »
