This week’s History Thread looks back at one of the odder events in English history: a series of protests and riots over a statue of a dog in Battersea. The Brown Dog of Battersea stood at the center of a … Continue reading The Brown Dog History Thread
It’s finally here! Time for the hour-long, four episode premiere of Steven Universe Future! Please use this thread to live blog or spoiler space; hopefully, one of our designated SU reviewers will provide a more in-depth thread to wrap everything … Continue reading Steven Universe Future Live Thread and Spoiler Space
Today’s History Thread remembers the Battle of Eureka Stockade, a seminal event in pre-independence Australia. A series of protests among the miners of Ballarat, Victoria culminated in a full-fledged rebellion against in November 1854. The protests had been triggered by … Continue reading The Eureka History Thread
Welcome to this week’s History Thread! It’s the anniversary of Abraham Lincoln’s proclaiming the “first” real Thanksgiving in 1863, with scarcely a Pilgrim in sight! Discuss what you will today. Continue reading A Turkey of a History Thread
Welcome to this week’s History Thread! Thanks to Sheltie for subbing last week. It’s the anniversary of Abraham Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address, a short but powerful dedication of the Gettysburg National Cemetery, about which many myths have grown up over the … Continue reading The History Thread Will Little Note Nor Long Remember
Welcome to this week’s History Thread! Remember, remember how today is the 414th anniversary of Guy Fawkes’ arrest for his involvement in the Gunpowder Plot to destroy Parliament and restore England to a Catholic theocracy. Try to remember that before … Continue reading The Treasonous History Thread
Welcome to this week’s History Thread! Today’s picture: On October 28-29, 1922 Benito Mussolini and his fascist Blackshirts carried out their March on Rome, consolidating fascist power in Italy. The culmination of three years of political ferment, it was a … Continue reading The Weekly History Thread Marches
Welcome to this week’s History Thread! Today’s picture: On October 22, 1844, the world ended. Or so predicted William Miller, a Baptist lay priest from New York who interpreted a passage from Daniel 8:14 (“Unto two thousand and three hundred … Continue reading The History Thread is a Great Disappointment
Welcome to this week’s History Thread! Today marks the 50th anniversary of the Days of Rage protest in Chicago. While other antiwar organizers prepared for the National Moratorium to End the War in Vietnam, a radical splinter of the Students … Continue reading The History Thread is All the Rage
Nobody had created this yet, so here’s a last-second version. Sludge requested Minshew, so here he is. Have fun and don’t hog the beer nuts. Continue reading The Emergency NFL Thread
Welcome to this week’s History Thread! Today’s picture: October 1, 1975 was one of the most famous boxing matches in modern history: the third fight between Muhammad Ali and Joe Frazier in Manila, appropriately dubbed the “Thrilla in Manila.” This … Continue reading The Thrilla in the History Threada
Welcome to the History Thread! I didn’t have time to prepare a header today, but that doesn’t mean we can’t discuss history in the thread below. Continue reading The Weekly History Thread
The early ’70s offered one explosion after another. Investigative reporters released world-historical bombshells: Seymour Hersh’s reporting on the My Lai Massacre; Daniel Ellsberg leaking the Pentagon Papers to the New York Times; Jack Anderson exposing Richard Nixon’s relationship with ITT. … Continue reading The Paranoid Style in Cinema: The Parallax View (1974, Alan J. Pakula)
This week’s History Thread falls on two seminal days in American history: the signing of the Constitution in 1787, and the Battle of Antietam seventy-five years later. The former created the document which remains, with a number of amendments, the … Continue reading A History Thread, if You Can Keep It
The shadow of assassination, even as it haunted America, seemed a perennial threat in postwar Europe. The ’60s and ’70s saw France, Italy, West Germany and Spain wracked by leftist terror groups and rightist paramilitary organizations, with government repression and … Continue reading The Paranoid Style in Cinema: The Day of the Jackal (1973, Fred Zinnemann)
Welcome to this week’s History Thread! My apologies for missing last week, I have no good excuse other than being otherwise occupied. This week’s picture: on September 10, 1897 a miner’s strike at Lattimer, PA turned violent. After the usual … Continue reading The Striking Weekly History Thread
November 22, 1963 was a defining event for a generation of Americans. John F. Kennedy’s assassination in Dallas, Texas became a national trauma, experienced collectively through media as a later generation endured 9/11. Nor did the event offer catharsis: Lee … Continue reading The Paranoid Style in Cinema: Executive Action (1973, David Miller)
Welcome to The Paranoid Style in Cinema! This will be a (hopefully) weekly column chronicling the subgenre of ’70s conspiracy thrillers. We will begin, however, with their antecedents, focusing particularly on the best-known and probably most important. We start with … Continue reading The Paranoid Style in Cinema: Z (Costa-Gavras, 1969)
Welcome to this week’s History Thread! Today is the 136th anniversary of the eruption of Krakatoa, one of the largest and most destructive volcanic events in modern history. After several months of gas emissions and preliminary explosions, the volcano (located … Continue reading The Loud Weekly History Thread
Sixth in a series of articles on McCarthyism and the Red Scare; see Parts One, Two, Three, Four and Five. By any standards, Ruth A. M. Schmidt was a remarkable woman. Born in Brooklyn in April 1916, Schmidt became interested … Continue reading How We Got Here: Ruth Schmidt Browses the Washington Bookshop
Welcome to this week’s History Thread! It’s the 51st anniversary of the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia, which crushed the Prague Spring and its reformist government under Alexander Dubcek. Continue reading The Weekly History Thread With a Human Face
