60s Archives - Ex-Plain

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One Free Ride: When Texas Prison Inmates Became Rodeo Cowboys

For more than fifty years, the Texas Prison Rodeo turned incarceration into public entertainment, drawing massive crowds to Huntsville to…

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To the left of the main entrance of St. Peter’s Basilica in Vatican City stands a controversial bronze door that…

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In the postwar era, pharmaceutical print advertising, especially for psychiatric drugs, was blunt, graphic, and often disturbing, using fear and…

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During the Cold War, access to music in the Soviet Union was tightly restricted by state censorship. Despite the risks,…

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Big-name endorsements and sharp visual design from the classic era of Sunn amplifiers.

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A revealing glance by one Spanish photographer into the halcyon early days of the Ibizan clubbing and party scene, where…