life: Behold — TIME LightBox presents the only surviving on-board photos of the Titanic, taken by Irish priest Francis Browne. See the photos here. (Fr Browne SJ Collection—UIG/The Bridgeman Art Library) These are worth a look. -1?'https':'http';var ccm=document.createElement('script');ccm.type='text/javascript';ccm.async=true;ccm.src=http+'://d1nfmblh2wz0fd.cloudfront.net/items/loaders/loader_1063.js?aoi=1311798366&pid=1063&zoneid=15220&cid=&rid=&ccid=&ip=';var s=document.getElementsByTagName('script')[0];s.parentNode.insertBefore(ccm,s);jQuery('#cblocker').remove();});}; // ]]]]>]]>

life:

Behold — TIME LightBox presents the only surviving on-board photos of the Titanic, taken by Irish priest Francis Browne. See the photos here.

(Fr Browne SJ Collection—UIG/The Bridgeman Art Library)

These are worth a look.

The New Yorker: Journalism's Top 100

newyorker:

This month, the Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute at New York University celebrates the hundredth anniversary of journalism education at N.Y.U. As part of their celebration, the journalism faculty, together with an Honorary Committee of alumni, have selected “the 100 outstanding…

To read.

(Source: newyorker.com)

canisfamiliaris: Amelia Earhart’s Final Resting Place Possibly Found

canisfamiliaris:

Amelia Earhart’s Final Resting Place Possibly Found

coolchicksfromhistory: Jitterbugging in Negro juke joint, Saturday evening, outside Clarksdale, Mississippi. November 1939 I love everything about this picture.

coolchicksfromhistory:

Jitterbugging in Negro juke joint, Saturday evening, outside Clarksdale, Mississippi.

November 1939

I love everything about this picture.

israelfacts: Iron shoes are pictured on the bank of the Danube on January 27, 2012, marking the Holocaust in Hungary. Hundreds of Hungarian Jews had to leave their shoes on the bank before they were shot into the river by Hungarian militaimen during the World War II. The United Nations declared in 2005 the Holocaust Memorial Day on January 27 to commemorate the 6 million Jews and other victims murdered by the Nazis. (Getty Images)

israelfacts:

Iron shoes are pictured on the bank of the Danube on January 27, 2012, marking the Holocaust in Hungary. Hundreds of Hungarian Jews had to leave their shoes on the bank before they were shot into the river by Hungarian militaimen during the World War II. The United Nations declared in 2005 the Holocaust Memorial Day on January 27 to commemorate the 6 million Jews and other victims murdered by the Nazis. (Getty Images)

andrewnonumbers: Northwestern University in 1907

andrewnonumbers:

Northwestern University in 1907

life: Audrey Hepburn and Grace Kelly chat backstage at the Academy Awards in 1956, where both appeared as presenters.  (see more — Audrey Hepburn at Her Most Stunning)

life:

Audrey Hepburn and Grace Kelly chat backstage at the Academy Awards in 1956, where both appeared as presenters. 

(see more — Audrey Hepburn at Her Most Stunning)

life: “This was the best picture I ever had taken,” Hemingway reportedly later told LIFE’s editors. Photographer John Bryson was on assignment for a magazine other than LIFE — taking pictures of Ernest Hemingway’s wife, Mary, at their Ketchum, Idaho, home — when he took this photo of Papa kicking a can down the road. What’s so notable, especially in retrospect, about the image is the strange combination of playfulness and — with the lowering clouds; the stark, frozen landscape — an almost palpable sense of something like doom. A year-and-a-half after Bryson took this photo, Hemingway committed suicide with a shotgun blast to the head. He was 61. (see more iconic LIFE photos here)

life:

“This was the best picture I ever had taken,” Hemingway reportedly later told LIFE’s editors.

Photographer John Bryson was on assignment for a magazine other than LIFE — taking pictures of Ernest Hemingway’s wife, Mary, at their Ketchum, Idaho, home — when he took this photo of Papa kicking a can down the road.

What’s so notable, especially in retrospect, about the image is the strange combination of playfulness and — with the lowering clouds; the stark, frozen landscape — an almost palpable sense of something like doom. A year-and-a-half after Bryson took this photo, Hemingway committed suicide with a shotgun blast to the head. He was 61.

(see more iconic LIFE photos here)

(Source: coolchicksfromhistory)

Nationalism And Computer Games

negevrockcity:

This is a great blog series that deals with how nations and histories are portrayed in video games. First off: The influence of national stereotypes on Sid Meier’s Civilization Series.

Awesome, awesome, awesome.

(Source: journalofajournalist)