The various project by the Works Progress Administration, ranging from beloved public buildings to invaluable…
Kelly Faircloth
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Senior Editor at Jezebel, specializing in books, royals, romance novels, houses, history, and the stories we tell about domesticity and femininity. Resident Windsor expert.
Everything’s a mess, but you know what? It’s still summer, and that means it’s summer reading time. What are you…
Turn-of-the-century seed packets are eye-catching works of commercial art, full of great lush images of roses and…
All over America—and increasingly, across the world—statues are falling to the ground. They’re being pushed or…
Many millennial parents will be familiar with a slight skepticism from boomer grandparents about the strictness of…
As protests swelled around America in the wake of the killing of George Floyd, a common theme emerged among the…
A little update on Prince Andrew, sidelined royal and prominent friend of convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein: He…
Nearly every one of the 1,374 pages in the J.C. Penney catalog from Fall/Winter 1977 hammers home a single word:…
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The Library of Congress, it turns out, has an absolutely amazing collection of midcentury roadside ice cream signs,…
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While this summer is mostly likely going to be extremely weird and unpredictable, it feels nice to do some normal…
Archie Mountbatten Windsor, great-grandson to the Queen of the United Kingdom, nearly dove off his mother’s lap…
Is every antique doll haunted? No. Are they almost universally creepy? I’m so sorry to report: yes.
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At Jezebel, we frequently find ourselves asking: Is this shoe OK? But back when hats were practically required by…
It’s fairly common to compare the Windsors to a soap opera or a reality show, a way of playing up their problems and…