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Scrapbooks are a curated way to display the things that people were most passionate about. Moving into the twentieth century, people began collecting items from their own life. “My dad takes most [...]

Avondale was the first planned community in the Southeastern United States. Avondale had many amenities: paved streets, a lake for fishing, leisure boating, and swimming, a pool, tennis courts, [...]

“Well, I’m sure you’ll find someone somewhere who’ll have you.”  ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire Often, I get asked, as a historian, how did people in the ‘olden times’ meet [...]

Between 1902 to 1932 in Decatur, the school week ran from Tuesday through Saturday. “Individuals are prey to institutions in modern mass societies… Individuals can struggle mightily against [...]

The Vietnam War incited a variety of responses in the U.S and around the world. Counterculture movements were emerging in the West, and the youth, in particular, were hungry for change. [...]