@publicdomainrev@mastodon.social
Not-for-profit project dedicated to exploring curious and compelling works from the history of art, literature, and ideas — focusing on works now fallen into the public domain.
Smaller posts surface images, books, audio, and film (sourced from places like Internet Archive, Library of Congress, The Met, Rijksmusuem, Wellcome, etc.) — and we've also 300+ long-form essays (✍️ submissions welcome!)
Here we'll mostly be tooting about content on our site. 🎺
#Onthisday in 1852, in the Corinthian Hall of Rochester, NY, Frederick Douglass gave his famous speech now known as "What to the Slave Is the 4th of July?". The fact that it was given on the fifth and not the fourth was significant: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/frederick-douglass-fourth-july-speech #otd
The Last American (1889) — journal of a Persian admiral who in the year 2951 sails across the Atlantic to “rediscover” the ruined remains of a US civilisation destroyed by climate change many centuries previously: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/the-last-american-1889 #fourthofjuly #ClimateChange 🇺🇸
Read the first edition pamphlet of Frederick Douglass' famous 1852 “What to the Slave Is the 4th of July?” speech. After he finished speaking there was “a universal burst of applause” and 700 copies of the pamphlet were subscribed to on the spot: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/frederick-douglass-fourth-july-speech #July4th
