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		<title>The Art of Play &#8211; Antique Children&#8217;s Books and Games From Around the Globe</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Melissa McCaffrey]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Dec 2025 16:08:24 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Games and toys have been created for children to play with for as long as humans have been in existence, and children&#8217;s books date back to some of the earliest experiments in printing. The first picture book exclusively meant for children is generally accepted to be Orbis Sensualium Pictus [The Visible World in Pictures], published [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Rock On! &#8211; The Underground, Punk, and Rock &#038; Roll in America</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Melissa McCaffrey]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Sep 2025 13:06:21 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In an introduction to the first issue of the Boston-based music magazine Frenzy, editor Robert Alan Colby wrote, &#8220;In increasing numbers, rock fans all over the world have had it with&#8230;so-called &#8220;rock&#8221; that doesn&#8217;t rock, and with the whole &#8220;superstar&#8221; set up and the jaded, bored multi-millionaires it&#8217;s elevated. They want something new&#8230;and to get [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>The Spanish Civil War &#8211; A Country Divided</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Melissa McCaffrey]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Aug 2025 16:56:30 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The Spanish Civil War was a period of great political turmoil and upheaval in Spain. The war broke out on July 17, 1936, when a conservative military group led by the generals Emilio Mola and Francisco Franco tried to overthrow the country&#8217;s democratically-elected republican government. Political and social tensions had been building in Spain for [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>The History of Horse Doping</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Melissa McCaffrey]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 17 May 2021 13:07:43 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[News stories have been swirling in recent days regarding the winner of the most recent Kentucky Derby, Medina Spirit. Following the race, Medina Spirit failed an initial drug test with his blood testing positive for betamethasone, an anti-inflammatory drug. The horse’s trainer has since acknowledged that the horse was treated with an anti-fungal ointment which [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>The Hospital Train in World War I Germany</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Melissa McCaffrey]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Apr 2020 11:52:34 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[A recent news story out of France reported that the French national railroad system had converted a high-speed TGV train into a hospital train, to move COVID-19 patients from Strasbourg to less stressed hospitals in the Loire Valley. The first usage of mass transportation to evacuate and treat the wounded happened in the 1850s during [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>The Erotic Imagination of Hans Bellmer</title>
		<link>https://www.rectoversoblog.com/2018/09/24/the-erotic-imagination-of-hans-bellmer/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Melissa McCaffrey]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Sep 2018 15:36:55 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Hans Bellmer was a Surrealist German artist and photographer. Born in 1902 and initially working in the fields of advertising and graphic design before transitioning to fine art, Bellmer&#8217;s first major project was also one of his best-known &#8211; Die Puppe, or a group of life-sized and sexualized pubescent female dolls. The goal of this first [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>The Political Photomontages of John Heartfield</title>
		<link>https://www.rectoversoblog.com/2018/08/01/the-political-photomontages-of-john-heartfield/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Melissa McCaffrey]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Aug 2018 14:41:05 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[John Heartfield (born Helmut Herzfeld) was an important and ground-breaking artist in Germany, known as the inventor of photomontage. He anglicized his name in protest against the anti-British sentiments prevalent in Germany after the First World War. He was a member of Berlin Club Dada, later assisting with the Erste International Dada-Messe exhibition of 1920. [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>&#8220;Il est interdit d&#8217;interdire! (It is forbidden to forbid)&#8221;: The Protests That Defined a Generation</title>
		<link>https://www.rectoversoblog.com/2018/05/16/il-est-interdit-dinterdire-it-is-forbidden-to-forbid-the-protests-that-defined-a-generation/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Melissa McCaffrey]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2018 16:13:02 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[This month marks the 50th anniversary of the massive strikes and demonstrations held in Paris and across France in May 1968. To this day, &#8220;May 68&#8221; is considered to be a cultural, social, and moral turning point in the history of France, and the events of that time had a resounding impact which was felt [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>&#8220;By Any Means Necessary&#8221;: Black Power and the Rise of the Black Panther Party</title>
		<link>https://www.rectoversoblog.com/2018/05/02/by-any-means-necessary-black-power-and-the-rise-of-the-black-panther-party/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Melissa McCaffrey]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 02 May 2018 13:14:02 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The 1960s were a tumultuous time in history, both in the United States and around the world. The 1960s saw the Bay of Pigs, the assassinations of John F. Kennedy and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., important strides in the Civil Rights Movement including the Greensboro sit-in and the Selma-to-Montgomery march, student protests and demonstrations, [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Iron and Ice: The Battle of Kil-Bouroun in Crimea</title>
		<link>https://www.rectoversoblog.com/2018/04/04/iron-and-ice-the-battle-of-kil-bouroun-in-crimea/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Melissa McCaffrey]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Apr 2018 12:55:03 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The Crimean War broke out on October 16, 1853 and lasted until early 1856, and was fought initially over the rights of Christian minorities in the Holy Land, which was under the domain of the Ottoman Empire. On one side was the Ottoman Empire allied with Britain, Sardinia, and France, who favored the rights of [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Divination and Cartomancy: An Impressive Collection of Tarot Cards</title>
		<link>https://www.rectoversoblog.com/2017/07/19/divination-and-cartomancy-an-impressive-collection-of-tarot-cards/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Melissa McCaffrey]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Jul 2017 11:35:38 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The history of tarot is long, and probably surprising to some. The earliest known surviving full deck dates to the early 15th century in Italy. Painted by Bonifacio Bembo for the Duke of Milan, it is known as the Visconti-Sforza deck, after the Duke’s family name. In Renaissance Europe, these decks of cards, then known [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Historical and Documentary Photography in 19th and Early 20th Century America</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Melissa McCaffrey]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 31 May 2017 11:09:57 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The late 19th and early 20th centuries were periods of major change and important historical events throughout the United States, as well as key developments in photography technology. Life could be documented in a way that was never possible before, both physically and economically. Photography allowed for more precise archiving than either lithography or engraving. [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Breaking Gender Barriers: Women and the WPA Milwaukee Handicraft Project</title>
		<link>https://www.rectoversoblog.com/2017/04/27/breaking-gender-barriers-women-and-the-wpa-milwaukee-handicraft-project/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Melissa McCaffrey]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Apr 2017 12:50:45 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The Works Progress Administration (WPA) was the largest and most ambitious agency created by the United States government as part of the New Deal, established under President Franklin Delano Roosevelt to help combat the Great Depression, focusing on the “3 Rs” of Relief, Recovery, and Reform: relief for the poor and unemployed, recovery of the [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Printer&#8217;s Archive for the Official Program of the Democratic National Convention of 1936.</title>
		<link>https://www.rectoversoblog.com/2016/06/30/printers-archive-for-the-official-program-of-the-democratic-national-convention-of-1936/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Melissa McCaffrey]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Jun 2016 17:19:32 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[A complete archive of the original artwork, photographs, advertisements, and fully edited and corrected typewritten essays which comprise the official guide to the 1936 Democratic National Convention, held in Philadelphia: including 41 original pen and ink drawings by Lyle Justis used as vignettes and illustrations throughout the text; over 200 original photographs, most with identification [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>A Collection of Leftist Political Posters, 1960-2010</title>
		<link>https://www.rectoversoblog.com/2016/04/15/a-collection-of-leftist-political-posters-1960-2010/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Melissa McCaffrey]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Apr 2016 14:44:07 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Cuba, OSPAAAL (Organization of Solidarity with the People of Asia, Africa, and Latin America), 1971 and 1972  Extensive and Culturally Significant Archive of Approximately 500 Political Posters. An important, unique, and carefully curated collection of political posters, dated from approximately the 1960s to the 2000s, from a wide variety of leftist and militant groups in [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Le Bal des Quat&#8217;z&#8217; Arts: Revelry and Debauchery in Turn of the Century Paris</title>
		<link>https://www.rectoversoblog.com/2015/09/08/le-bal-des-quatz-arts-revelry-and-debauchery-in-turn-of-the-century-paris/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Melissa McCaffrey]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Sep 2015 18:21:42 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[“It is a riot, a revival of paganism…It is also, in its way, a hymn to beauty, a living explosion of the senses and of the emotions.” – E. Berry Wall, Neither Past Nor Puritan In 1892, Henri Guillaume, Professor of Architecture at the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris, proposed that the students [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>The École de Montmartre in 1920&#8217;s Paris</title>
		<link>https://www.rectoversoblog.com/2015/08/17/the-ecole-de-montmartre-in-1920s-paris/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Melissa McCaffrey]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Aug 2015 18:11:09 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[&#160; &#160; &#160; &#160; &#160; &#160; &#160; Paris in the late 19th and early 20th century, especially during the periods known as the Belle Époque and les Années Folles, was a hotbed of intellectual and artistic life. During the former, Montmartre was abuzz with cafés, cabarets, and artists’ studios, with a large number of painters [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Charlie Hebdo&#8217;s Ancestors</title>
		<link>https://www.rectoversoblog.com/2015/01/23/charlie-hebdos-ancestors/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Melissa McCaffrey]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Jan 2015 20:03:26 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[&#160; Journalism in France has a rich tradition of political satire and caricature, dating back many hundreds of years and gaining footholds at many crucial moments in France’s history. Popular in the 17th century, Molière and Jean de la Fontaine earned their fame mocking the upper echelons of society through comic plays or fables, often [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Anni di piombo. The Lead Years, 1968-1982.</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Erika Knowles]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Aug 2014 15:02:07 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[“Anni di piombo” (“The Lead Years”) has little nostalgic resonance in the US. Unlike “Mai ‘68”, which instantly evokes exhilarating scenes of French student occupations, demonstrations, police brutality, wildcat strikes, riots, and barricades. (And perhaps some fervent threesomes if you made it through Bertolucci’s The Dreamers.) While Mai ‘68 appears retrospectively as both the unfulfilled [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Under the Matzos Tree.</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Erika Knowles]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 09 May 2014 18:42:41 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[52 Examples of Jewish-American Sheet Music from the Early 20th Century. A collection of English-language sheet music, ca. 4-8 pp. each, in orig. color illus. wrrps., most published in New York, Boston, Chicago, Cleveland, or Los Angeles, ca. 1900-1920. (47699) “Under the Matzo Tree: A Ghetto Love Song,” “Yiddle on your Fiddle Play Some Rag [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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