Tag: Century

Weird 19th-Century Punctuation Marks You Should Try Using

Me, I see no problem. I am a huge fan of this much-maligned punctuation mark, so much so that I wrote a follow-up essay arguing the manifold merits of the m-dash. (tl;dr: It’s anarchic, digressive, a connector, and graphically pretty. But go read the whole essay!) So basically I a...

???Red Summer??? ??? Black Empowerment and White Rage in the Early Twentieth Century

Blatantly hateful and dehumanizing words should shock and appall us. We should question the integrity and intentions of anyone who voices such words. And yet, as the rhetoric of the 2024 presidential campaign heats up, supporters of the presumptive GOP nominee do not flinch — indeed they respo...

The Most Monumental Cultural Achievements of the Past Century

The moon landing — In 1969, NASA’s Apollo 11 mission successfully landed astronauts on the moon, a feat that had been deemed impossible just a few decades earlier. This achievement marked a major milestone in the history of space exploration and has had a significant impact on our unders...

Repealing the Last Half of the 20th Century

Not long ago, the U.S. Supreme Court held the belief that centuries of enslavement of Black Americans followed by decades of Jim Crow laws were fundamental wrongs in need of remedies. Regardless of political persuasion, the Court’s justices held the opinion that segregated lunch counters and &...

Age of Consent became critical in late nineteenth century India

The age of consent debate comes into picture with a unique event of defiance when an 1884 suit was filed in the Bombay high court against a child-bride by her husband who refused to be obligated to an un consented marriage, formalised when she was 11 years old. Rukhmabai was thus thrown in...

Vote of the Century

There has been an incredibly contentious election in the news cycle, one of the most divisive and shocking in New Zealand’s short history. It involved underhand tactics from foreign actors to influence the outcome and cause a historic upset in our beloved, arguably most discussed, election. Of...

18th Century Grandeur

There are two dictionary definitions of a town house. Per the Collins Dictionary: A town house is a tall narrow house in a town or city, usually in a row of similar houses, which are connected together. The town house of a wealthy per...