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Marie al-Khazen was a Lebanese photographer who lived between 1899 and 1983. Her photographs were mostly taken between the 1920s and 1930s in the North of Lebanon. They were compiled by Mohsen Yammine, a Lebanese collector who later donated the photographs to the Arab Image Foun…

In the 1920s and early 1930s, elites in the public and private sectors in Mexico and the United States who had diverse political and economic interests circulated constructs of national identity by way of writings, photographs, fine art, and popular arts. However, there were inc…

The question of the nature of women’s paid work has been a frequent point of historical inquiry. Using a source previously only tapped quantitatively, this paper seeks to expand our understanding of how women’s employment was advertised for and viewed during the 1920s and 30s in…

Scarlett O’Hara, a fictional character created by Margaret Mitchell, made her world debut as the protagonist of Gone With the Wind, on June 30, 1936. In 1939, the novel was adapted for film and produced by David O. Selznick of Selznick International Pictures and Metro–Goldwyn– M…

April 1935 marked the year that the “Dust Bowl” was termed. It was a catastrophic national event that primarily impacted the American Great Plains—specifically the Panhandle of the central United States. Stories of the Dust Bowl situate themselves within the narratives of the Gr…

My research on Victor Brauner’s work in the first two decades of his affiliation with the Surrealist group in Paris re-establishes the role played by the Romanian Jewish artist in the definition of automatic Surrealist procedures of painting and mixed-technique objects that reli…