In this post I contrast two African-American watch meetings, one that heralded the year 1863, the other 1965. One perhaps was never held, but was powerfully depicted in a painting and circulated as a carte de visite, the other was recorded on twelve reel-to-reel audiotapes and never reproduced. As an historian of temporality, I am […]
Month: December 2015
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Cafe, New Year’s Eve ca. 1910-1915
What hat will you wear to welcome 2016?