History 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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In 1974, Soviet authorities used bulldozers, arrests, and violence to destroy an unsanctioned outdoor art exhibition, only to ignite an…

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Two thousand years before concrete brutalism, this ancient Roman tomb built to honor a former slave appears staggeringly modern, but…

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A stolen white Porsche 911 in 1970s Yugoslavia turned an ordinary car thief into an urban legend. For several nights,…

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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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Founded in 2018, COMRADE Gallery has grown into one of the most compelling new archives of Eastern Bloc visual design.…

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