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The Norwegians Land in Iceland 872 by Oscar Wergeland (1877).
Why We Love the Vikings
The 1969 Harlem Cultural Festival
Black Woodstock: The 1969 Harlem Cultural Festival
Film poster for Dilwale Dulhaniya Le Jayenge (1995).
Top Ten Origins: Bollywood Films
Image reading "there is no news tonight"
“No News Day” at the BBC
Film poster for Pather Panchali (1955).
Top Ten Origins: From Bollywood to Indywood
Highclere Castle, the main setting for Downton Abbey.
At the Movies: Downton Abbey
A promotional still from the 1951 Broadway production of The King and I
Top Ten Origins: Historical Musicals
Still image from the Movie The Bridge (Criterion Collection).
Top Ten Origins: World War II Films
Marvel character Black Panther
Searching for Wakanda: The African Roots of the Black Panther Story
Black Panther
Searching for Wakanda: The African Roots of the Black Panther Story
LA 92, directed by Dan Lindsay, T.J. Martin
At the Movies: LA 92: The Right to be Angry
Richard and Mildred Loving in June, 1967.
At the Movies: "The Loving Cup"
Entrance gate of Auschwitz Concentration Camp, "Work Sets You Free," 2013
At the Movies: “Canaries,” A Review of Denial
Bruce Lee
The Original Street Fighting Man
William Shatner as Captain Kirk and Leonard Nimoy as Mr. Spock pose behind a model of the starship Enterprise.
Star Trek
The theatrical poster for Birth of a Nation.
3/25/2015: At the Movies: "Birth of a Nation" After 100 Years
Taylor Swift at the 2014 Costume Institute Gala at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
2/12/2015: Top Ten Origins: Oscar Dresses and Women’s Fashion
Escobar: Paradise Lost, directed by Andrea Di Stefano
2/6/2015: At the Movies: Escobar
The Sherman M4-A2E8 Tank
12/3/2014: At the Movies: Fury
The film Poster for Captain Phillips (2013)
Contested Waters: Captain Phillips and the Hijacking of the Maersk Alabama
a man standing on a large bomb
Fifty Years Later, We Still Need to Learn to Love the Bomb
JFK and Jackie Kennedy on a sailboat
Watching JFK Live and Die Years Later
Django Unchained movie poster
The Law of Slavery Lies at the Heart of the Movies “Lincoln” and “Django Unchained”
Weimar Germany: Promise and Tragedy, by Eric D. Weitz Book Cover
Weimar Germany: Promise and Tragedy