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Art Could Have Saved Us From Ourselves
The Federal Art Project set out to create a more democratic and enlightened America
Apr 28
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Christine Baumgarthuber
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Art Could Have Saved Us From Ourselves
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March 2023
On Snuff Spoons, Oedipal Forks, and My Latest Book
The history of cutlery is not as boring as you might think
Mar 16
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Christine Baumgarthuber
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A “Demitasse” History of Britain’s Temperance Coffee Taverns
I have lived in southern New England for a while now, and it used to be that I could count on winter’s being, well, wintry. Snow fell and it stuck…
Mar 9
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Christine Baumgarthuber
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February 2023
A Piece I Wrote for Compact Magazine
For Compact Magazine I wrote a piece on a prominent fitness and health influencer thrilling the political far right. In about 4,000 words, you'll find…
Feb 23
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Christine Baumgarthuber
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December 2022
“Where All Hearts Meet Together”: Washington Irving’s “Old Christmas”
A man might then behold At Christmas, in each hall Good fires to curb the cold, And meat for great and small. The neighbors were friendly bidden, And…
Dec 23, 2022
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Christine Baumgarthuber
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“Where All Hearts Meet Together”: Washington Irving’s “Old Christmas”
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November 2022
Dystopian Dining
A nut was a nutrition-unit, creation of the Ministry of Synthetic Food. –Anthony Burgess, The Wanting Seed (1962) If you should ever plan a trip to…
Nov 29, 2022
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September 2022
Tobacco Prose: The Cigar-Factory Readers of Ybor City
We read to know we are not alone. –C.S. Lewis On a December evening in 1903, the streets of Ybor City, Florida rang with gunfire. Two men had dueled…
Sep 8, 2022
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June 2022
Berrying with Thoreau
Let the amelioration in our laws of property proceed from the concession of the rich, not from the grasping of the poor … Let us understand that the…
Jun 30, 2022
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April 2022
Unusual Tastes: The Restaurants of Weimar Germany
Let’s enjoy the carnival of the inflation. It’s loads of fun and paper, printed paper, flimsy stuff — do they still call it money? ... Krupp and Stinnes…
Apr 18, 2022
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December 2021
Observing Christmas with a Mass Observer
A sprig of mistletoe was all Pam Ashford wanted for Christmas, 1941. It surely would’ve livened up the office of the Glasgow coal-shipping firm for…
Dec 30, 2021
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Christine Baumgarthuber
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Observing Christmas with a Mass Observer
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March 2021
"A Solemn and an Awful Thing": Dining with Americans Sickens Dickens
To the distinction between dining and merely feeding no one was more alive than Charles Dickens. For him, any refreshment to be gotten from a meal was…
Mar 7, 2021
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"A Solemn and an Awful Thing": Dining with Americans Sickens Dickens
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February 2021
Of Anarchists, Empresses, and Diets
Only those who work are entitled to eat! Such was the statement made to police by 25-year-old Italian anarchist Luigi Lucheni when asked why he had just…
Feb 15, 2021
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