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There's a pretty great article here in English, full of details about this collection of over 30k amateur photographs: Catherine E. Clark, "'C’était Paris en 1970': Amateur Photogr…

Delighted to see this here. As the editor mentions, there was also a separate effort to collect opinions from American authors, including Sherwood Anderson, Pearl Buck, Theodore Dr…

Great seeing this here. Some related articles I can suggest include ... * Matthew Wynn Sivils, "What America's first board game can teach us about the aspirations of a young nation…

I've enjoyed using Neocities for obscure amateur hobby content, translating 16th-19th C. parlor games that involve creating stories or doing a little light roleplaying: https://wob…

Monopoly is a good example given in the article but also such a recent one that it may leave a misleading impression. The Tibetan game above is 13th C. The Chinese and Japanese gam…

Board games with a moral/didactic dimension have a very long history that might be of interest here, e.g. -- Mark Tatz and Jody Kent (1978), _Rebirth: The Tibetan Game of Liberatio…

I was delighted to see this--thanks for posting it. Games like this (and Semantle, etc.) have a surprisingly long history. The TikTok #gotitchallenge [0] shows one way to play in p…

In 1987, Alcida Ramos--an anthropologist who had worked with the Yanomami--published a terrific article going over what she recognized about them in other texts, including Chagnon'…

A fun thing about Twenty Questions is how old it is. Here it is in French in 1788, as "The Twelve Questions" but still beginning with the question animal, vegetable, or mineral: ht…

Hm, the link into page 52 of the book seems to have been cut off--it's here: https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Home_Book_of_Pleasu... A version from 1842 lacking "Fizz" is a…