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A Contingency Plan

A Contingency Plan

Plan-b by Nick Youngson CC BY-SA 3.0 Alpha Stock Images The denouement upon us This week ends our crypto-experiment in nonprofit fundraising and adminstration. You’ll find my review of the product of our

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Everybody's Got to Eat! Cooking like it's 1918

Everybody's Got to Eat! Cooking like it's 1918

So far in the #explore1918 series, I've written about how World War I impacted free speech, Eastern European immigrants' cultural pride, literature, and the legality of condoms. Next I'm going to turn

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"Fixing" the Cultural Sector

"Fixing" the Cultural Sector

I'm a millennial. I'm one of those mysterious, fickle, and elusive creatures that the nonprofit world spends hours bemoaning, pandering to, and unsuccessfully wooing with direct mailers of personalized

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A Call to Arms of Another Kind: 1918, A Banner Year for the Condom

A Call to Arms of Another Kind: 1918, A Banner Year for the Condom

I'm writing about culture for #explore1918 (see my prior entry about Edith Wharton's "propaganda novel"). In honor of Valentine's Day, and in a thematically-compatible spirit as my colleague

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A Broken Branch Surprise - My Actifit Report Card: September 6th, 2026

A Broken Branch Surprise - My Actifit Report Card: September 6th, 2026

Welcome to Liquid Eye’s Actifit Blog Sunday ☀️ 9034 A crisp morning after a damp night. Very windy and cool, but no rain was forecast, and I’d finished the job on the other side of town yesterday, so today

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Forgotten Works of 1918: Reassessing Edith Wharton's 'The Marne'

Forgotten Works of 1918: Reassessing Edith Wharton's 'The Marne'

My past two entries for #explore1918 have dealt with serious political issues: specifically, censorship and sedition in wartime through the lens of the Philadelphia Tageblatt trial; and an odd and unsuccessful

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Philadelphia Prisoners during WWI: Volunteering Behind Bars

Philadelphia Prisoners during WWI: Volunteering Behind Bars

When the United States officially entered World War I in April 1917, free men and women weren't the only ones who wanted to help their country. Unable to enlist in the military, prisoners at Philadelphia's

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A Declaration of Independence for the Oppressed: The Mid-European Union at Independence Hall

A Declaration of Independence for the Oppressed: The Mid-European Union at Independence Hall

A Remarkably-Timed Celebration Although the Great War would not end for another three weeks, and much of the city was laid low with the deadly Spanish influenza epidemic, for some the mood in Center City

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The Limitations of Free Speech in Wartime: The Philadelphia Tageblatt Trial

The Limitations of Free Speech in Wartime: The Philadelphia Tageblatt Trial

September of 1918 was a fraught time in Philadelphia. Day after day, newspaper headlines carried a grim mixture of battle updates from the Great War, seemingly endless lists war casualties, appeals for

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The Drama Behind the Drama (Fiction)

The Drama Behind the Drama (Fiction)

Broad daylight opened to the receiving room. Longing for his queen, who was away overseas, the king waited. Scarcely had he opened the louvres when a letter came in. "My lord! Here is the masterpiece

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Tarzan of the Apes: A Nation, and a City's, Response to the First Tarzan Film

Tarzan of the Apes: A Nation, and a City's, Response to the First Tarzan Film

In honor of today's announcement of the 2018 Oscar nominations, here's some 1918 movie history: One hundred years ago, the still relatively new and uncensored Hollywood film industry produced many exciting

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Full Steem Ahead!

Full Steem Ahead!

Pleased to meet you! Yours truly doing research in Port Penn, Delaware I’m Cynthia Heider, a student in the Public History M.A. program at Temple University in Philadelphia. I’m gearing up to #explore1918

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The Sober Reality of the 1918 Spanish Flu Epidemic -- Literally

The Sober Reality of the 1918 Spanish Flu Epidemic -- Literally

Bars are often where people go to forget about their troubles. This was especially true in 1918 when labor was often manual and technology like the internet was not yet available as a means of distraction.

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introduceyourself

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Hello!

My name is Joy. In August I moved from sunny Sarasota, Florida to Philadelphia in order to pursue my master's in Public History at Temple University. I completed a lot of exciting work in my first semester,