History #3
The chief practical use of history is to deliver us from plausible historical analogies.
James Bryce, introduction, The American Commonwealth (1888)
Looke what thy memorie cannot containe, Commit to these waste blacks
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September
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- Art #12, Beauty #5
- Manhattan #32, Love #16, Scopitone #28
- Lines Taken Out of Context #7
- The Sporting Life #2, America #24
- Scopitone #27
- War #5, Scenes from a Life #13, Catalogue of the V...
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- Scopitone #25, Scenes from a Life #12
- Archaeology of Madison Avenue #3, Age of Print #4,...
- Order of the Universe #10
- Manhattan #31, Alcohol #8, The Automobile #11
- Auden #13
- History #3
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The Uncommons
- A Young Whig
- a456
- American Memory, Library of Congress
- Center for Land Use Interpretation
- David Rumsey Maps
- Elusive Lucidity
- Fred Camper
- Future Anterior
- Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS)
- If Charlie Parker Was a Gunslinger...
- Kazys Varnelis
- New York Public Library
- No Comment
- Rockers Galore
- Strange Maps
- Thanks for the Use of the Hall
- The W.H. Auden Society
- U B U W E B
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