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From art and architecture to film, fun, fashion, and infamous behavior, Simple Rediscovery brings the best of the past to light for a new age. Relearn, relive, and relove subjects that we revive and refresh for today. Find us at simplerediscovery.org.
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2016-09-11 | The best changes in history are made by the best people. As much as we might want to think ... and imagine ... that today we are far more advanced, artistically and creatively, than any of our predecessors … I’m sorry to clue you in, but we are wrong.... | |
2016-09-02 | In just around three minutes, a good pop story song gives us an abbreviated account of a love affair, or the details of an adventure (or misadventure), or the particulars of a personal tragedy that wasn’t our own, but was something that touched our sou... | |
2016-08-23 | Rediscover the frightening tales from our collective past. We’ll come to see that things really haven’t changed that much since the Brothers Grimm collected their tales. How we teach our children to learn about life, culture, society, history … is an i... | |
2016-08-19 | It’s true that vain people can be slothful ... and slothful people can be vain but most of these double-duty offenders exist only on the fringes of polite society. For those of us in the middle—particularly those of us in the middle financially—there i... | |
2016-08-17 | Rediscover the pop-up book — which isn’t only a book — it is art. Explore the modern masters of pop-up books: Matthew Reinhart, Robert Sabuda, David Carter, and Marion Bataille. And the early creators of paper engineering: Matthew Paris, Ernest Nister,... | |
2016-08-12 | A night of theater—be it a high-end, professional production in a major city; or a touring company performance in a mid-sized regional hub; or a Little Theater, community theater, or school drama department show in a suburb or small town—the “night of ... | |
2014-04-18 | Even if you haven’t heard of Mary Blair (1911–1978), you’re probably very familiar with some of her classic illustrations and designs. Just close your eyes and imagine the colorful, iconic faces of the children depicted in the “It’s a Small World” attr... | |
2014-01-19 | In 1989, when Allan Gurganus published his debut novel, Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All, he did something amazing: Through a work of fiction, he managed to bring to life what was, to date, the most divisive period in American history, the Civ... | |
2013-11-10 | One could argue that the introduction of the modern typewriter just a tad over 110 years ago did more to change the way that humans communicate than any other single mechanical device before or since. Although Johannes Gutenberg’s printing press began ... | |
2013-10-31 | You might be surprised to learn that most public museums didn’t appear until the eighteenth century; even then, it was often difficult for many middle- and upper-class patrons to gain access to their collections. And if you were working class or poor, ... |