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By Guest Blogger Amanda Howard “The days go quickly, but just the same it seems ages and ages between the times we are with each other.” –January 25, 1922 At the outset of the coronavirus pandemic last winter, archives, museums and libraries urged the communities they... Read More

By Guest Blogger Nancy Down   The 1920s brings to mind authors like Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and the poetry of T.S. Eliot. Today we would call this decade part of the modernist movement. As a curator of a collection of popular literature, I find myself asking... Read More

By Guest Blogger Jacqueline Hudson   Started in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, jazz has its musical roots in New Orleans, Louisiana where it combines American and European classical music with African and slave folk songs with a touch of West African culture. The... Read More

By Guest Blogger Charles A. Coletta, Ph.D. The comic strip is a uniquely American art form with a long tradition in our culture. Benjamin Franklin’s 1754 propaganda cartoon, Join or Die, depicting a severed snake, is the earliest known pictorial representation of a colonial union... Read More

  By Guest Blogger Ron Ammons Earl B. Kennedy registered for the military service at age 30 in the spring of 1917, and perhaps because of his age and aptitude, was assigned to the Officer Candidate School at Fort Benjamin Harrison, Indiana from May 11 to August 14 of 1917.... Read More