Enjoying your day off and the end of summer but have no idea why? Labor Day, the first Monday in September, is a creation of the labor movement and is dedicated to the social and economic achievements of American workers. It constitutes a yearly national tribute to the contributions workers have made to the strength, [...]

What a quick and tumultuous rise to power. Twenty-nine years ago today in 1979, Saddam Hussein replaced the resigning president of Iraq and went on to further consolidate his power. It was the beginning of nearly three decades of tickle fights with the international community. In April 2003 he was dislodged from power and on [...]

Everything I ever learned and didn’t want to know about menstruation came from an educational video from 1953. Part 1 Part 2 “What about dancing, Miss Jensen, can I do that while menstruating?” Number of Views:148

Okay, we get it, newspaper circulation is down. Everyone is ditching print for online. But, I get the feeling it is a bit exaggerated. I’ve already posted here that we’re simply living through what we’ll someday call the newspaper bubble, the market swinging the industry nearer to a healthy environment. I would love to really [...]

I have mentioned that I am currently serving one of the great internships that still remain in the newspaper industry these days. For 12-weeks, I am getting $500 every Friday to cover the largest full-time State Legislature in the country in the Capitol of Harrisburg, Pa. When I am done at the end of August, [...]

DO YOU WORRY about going on a date? Of course you do. So why not learn from educational films of the 1940s? Part 1 Part 2 Number of Views:96

On this day, March 18, in 1965, Cosmonaut Alexey Leonov (depicted at right above) became the first man to walk in space. See video of that monumental step by the Russian below. Number of Views:111

I stumbled upon this and thought it pretty cool. This silent film claims to be, and I have no reason to suggest otherwise, a home movie of the 1929 World Series between the Chicago Cubs and the Philadelphia Athletics, a series the Philadelphia team won four games to one. The video owner described it as [...]

Check out this old commercial, date unknown to me. Number of Views:91

I have been cleaning, organizing and scanning many of the 86-years of archives of The Temple News, the college newspaper for which I work, and every once in a while you come across a gem. Remember Creed? Of course you do. Well, in 1998, while Creed was at its peak, the band came to Philadelphia [...]