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A Queens senator proposes legalizing drugs... in 1965
Thursday, June 19, 2014
Kurt Vonnegut: "Fates Worse Than Death"
Wednesday, June 11, 2014
Beautiful and Disturbing 'Peter and the Wolf' Album Covers
Friday, May 23, 2014
A Very Weird Song About Adolf Hitler
Wednesday, May 07, 2014
50 Years Ago, Breakfast Changed Forever
Monday, April 28, 2014
Calypso on WNYC
Friday, April 25, 2014
Paul Fussell: The Poetry of Three Wars: World War I, World War II and Vietnam
Wednesday, April 02, 2014
Hello Future, Can You Hear Me?
Friday, March 21, 2014
Last week we presented an allegory for retrieving audio, where we compared it to listening to a distant radio station. Of course, that is only half of what audio archivists do: the other half is to try to extend the reach of that signal into the future.
Hello Past, I Can Hear You!
Friday, March 14, 2014
Picture yourself on a weekend retreat in a rented cabin in the woods, not far from your home. Although you love the isolation (no wi-fi, no TV), you would like to listen to your favorite radio show on Saturday afternoon¹. After looking around, you find a cheap clock radio in the bedroom and, at the appointed time, you fiddle with the (maddeningly small) tuner wheel, tune the (analog) dial, and hope that your favorite station's signal reaches your receiver's dinky little antenna.
A Song For the Melting Snow
Friday, March 07, 2014
Celebrate the retreat of winter with an extraordinary performance of The Waters of March. It's not just a song about Spring, it's a song about "the rebirth of the human spirit."
Say it Loud: Black, Immigrant & Proud
Monday, February 17, 2014
1964: Opening salvo in the tobacco wars
Thursday, January 30, 2014
This year marks the 50th anniversary of what some call "the most important public health document of the 20th century": the Surgeon General's first Report on Smoking and Health.
The Day They Dropped an A-Bomb on the Bronx in December 1952
Wednesday, January 01, 2014
Concert Pianist Irene Jacobi: WNYC American Music Festival, 1943
Tuesday, December 24, 2013
‘Making The Wheels Go Round’: The New York Tuberculosis and Health Association's 1931 Christmas Stamp
Tuesday, December 24, 2013
Audiovisual archives in a digital world
Wednesday, December 18, 2013
How is the digital world affecting the role of audiovisual archives? Last week the Metropolitan New York Library Council (METRO) and New York University's Moving Image and Preservation Program (MIAP) presented a workshop on preserving locally-produced digital audiovisual content, which tried to provide some ...
The Honorable William F. Hagarty on the Benefits of Exercise, December 1931
Tuesday, December 17, 2013
“May heaven speed the day when the length and breadth of our United States shall be peopled with men and women, and boys and girls, solely by those of this type: strong bodied, true hearted, big souled patriots, athletes all for the land they love and the God they worship.”
The 1957 pandemic: Not the Flu We Knew
Friday, December 13, 2013
‘The World Has Suffered Many Losses through Time’: Environmental Conservation and The Passenger Pigeon, December 1931
Tuesday, December 10, 2013
Most of us are familiar with the sad story of the passenger pigeon: the North American bird whose immense numbers (believed to have been up to forty percent of the wild bird population) and intensely social habits (being unable to thrive or breed successfully in small groups) prevented its recovery ...
‘Depression or No Depression’: Bronx Hospital Needs Donations to Open, December 1931
Tuesday, December 03, 2013
Imagine a newly constructed hospital with room for over 300 occupants, sitting idle and standing empty in a time of great need.
By the mid-1920s the Bronx Hospital, originally founded in 1911, had outgrown its original facility and began construction on a state-of-the art hospital at Fulton Avenue and 169th ...
