Post Perspective

Landing craft, barrage balloons, and troops coming ashore at Normandy on D-Day, June 6, 1944. Source: Library of Congress

Jun 05, 2014

Post Perspective, World War II

D-Day: The Century’s Best Kept Secret

Jeff Nilsson

IBM typewriter ad in The Saturday Evening Post, 1954.

Gallery

May 29, 2014

Post Perspective, The 1950s

Gallery How Americans Saw Themselves in the 1950s

Jeff Nilsson

Richard Loeb (right) and Nathan Leopold (left) in 1924.

May 23, 2014

History, Post Perspective

The Leopold and Loeb Murder Trial, 90 years later

Jeff Nilsson

Buffalo Bill and Sitting Bull. Cody petitioned the government to release the Sioux chief so he could appear in the Wild West.

May 05, 2014

History, Post Perspective

America’s First Superstar: William Cody (AKA Buffalo Bill) and his Wild West

Jeff Nilsson

"Whatever Became of John Scopes, the Dayton 'Monkey Trial' Man? October 9, 1943. © SEPS 2014

Apr 24, 2014

History, Legal, Post Perspective

Whatever Happened to John Scopes, the ‘Monkey-Trial Man’?

Jeff Nilsson

Apr 17, 2014

Post Perspective, The 1960s

Falling for Jackie Kennedy

Jeff Nilsson

Paul, George, Ringo, and John rehearse for the Ed Sullivan show in Miami Beach. In Florida, the Beatles went yachting, swam in private pools, and visited heavyweight champ Cassius Clay. @SEPS 2013

Apr 17, 2014

Music, Post Perspective, The 1960s

Long Live The Beatles!

Cable Neuhaus

Group shot of the 1919 White Sox. They would after this year be known as the "Black Sox Scandal" team, due to the allegation that eight members of the team accepted bribes to lose the 1919 World Series to the Cincinnati Reds. These eight players, pitchers Eddie Cicotte and Claude "Lefty" Williams, first baseman Charles "Chick" Gandil, shortstop Charles "Swede"Risberg, third baseman George "Buck" Weaver, outfielders Joe "Shoeless Joe" Jackson and Oscar "Happy" Felsch, and pinch hitter Fred McMullin, were banned from the game of baseball for life.

Apr 17, 2014

Post Perspective, Sports

The A-Rod Factor: Cheating in America’s Favorite Pastime

Jeff Nilsson

Charles Lindbergh adjusts his parachute in front of Sergeant Bell’s experimental biplane on Lambert Field, St. Louis, Missouri, in the mid-to-late 1920s, while Bell waits in the plane.

Apr 17, 2014

Post Perspective

Lindbergh Re-examined

Lynne Olson

Close up of rippling American flag. John Clymer © 1942 SEPS

Apr 17, 2014

Post Perspective

The Myth of America’s Decline

Josef Joffee

Apr 17, 2014

Post Perspective

The History of Health and Medicine in America

Patrick Perry

Apr 17, 2014

Clippings & Curiosities, Post Perspective

Happy Birthday, President Washington!

Patrick Perry

Apr 17, 2014

Civil War, Clippings & Curiosities, Post Perspective

The History of Baseball’s Designated Hitter Rule: Or, The Decline and Fall of Western Civilization?

Jeff Nilsson

Apr 17, 2014

Clippings & Curiosities, Post Perspective

Speaking Up For the Talkies in 1929: ‘Silent Movies Are History’

Jeff Nilsson

Orson Welles

Apr 17, 2014

People, Post Perspective

The Genius Who Launched the Martian Invasion

Jeff Nilsson

Congress

Apr 17, 2014

Post Perspective, The 1960s

Your Government Inaction: The Do-Nothing Congress of 50 Years Ago

Jeff Nilsson and