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The Public Domain Review
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Splitting Hairs: Chinese Immigrants, the Queue, and the Boundaries of Political Citizenship
https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/splitting-hairs
Published: July 9, 2025 13:37
As Chinese immigration to California accelerated across the 19th century, the hairstyle known as the queue — a long, braided pony tail — became the subject of white Americans’ fascination, disgust, and legal regulation. Sarah Gold McBride explores why hair…
The Mowing-Devil (1678), or, the Earliest Known Depiction of a Crop Circle
https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/the-mowing-devil
Published: July 3, 2025 09:53
A crop circle sighting tinged with Christian morality.
Perspiration, Bilocation, and Plagiarisation: “The Heat Wave” (1929)
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Published: July 1, 2025 14:09
Time travel and murder during a New York heat wave.
The “Private” Photographs of Bolette Berg and Marie Høeg (ca. 1895–1903)
https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/berg-and-hoeg
Published: June 24, 2025 13:45
Excerpts from a dazzling image collection, discovered in a Norwegian barn in the 1980s, that experiments with the presentation of gender.
Dancing Naked on the Head of a Pin: The Early History of Microphotography
https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/dancing-naked-on-the-head-of-a-pin
Published: June 18, 2025 14:08
In 1853, John Benjamin Dancer achieved a feat of seemingly impossible scale: he shrunk an image to the size of a sharpened pencil tip. Anika Burgess explores the invention of microphotography and its influence on erotic paraphernalia and military…
The Language of Form: Lothar Schreyer’s Kreuzigung (1920)
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Published: June 18, 2025 14:07
The sole example of a Bauhaus workshop’s arcane theatrical scoring system, combining colours, words, and complex symbolic notation.
Trojan Pig: Tiny Cryptic #11
https://publicdomainreview.org/blog/2025/06/tiny-cryptic-11
Published: June 18, 2025 14:07
Eleventh instalment in our series of extremely small and free-form cryptic crossword puzzles, themed on our latest essay.
Strings Attached: Helen Haiman Joseph’s A Book of Marionettes (1920)
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Published: June 12, 2025 11:46
The first comprehensive history of marionette artistry in the English language.
Off with Their Heads: Illustrations of Blemmyes (ca. 1175–1724)
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Published: June 11, 2025 16:34
Depictions of the mythical creatures known as Blemmyes: humanoids whose eyes, nose, and mouth are embedded in their breast.