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A Postcard from Canada’s Military Museums
1+ week, 2+ hour ago (230+ words) Visitors attending a public talk. Museum exhibit showcasing the wartime roles of Indigenous women, in English and French. Avro Canada CF-100 interceptor. The only all Canadian fighter designed and built in Canada. It entered service in the early 1950s and was…...
Christ, What a Monster! — audio
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (97+ words) Editor's note: this is a bonus piece. If you're a donor to the magazine, log in to read the full piece. If you're not a donor, you can become one here. This is author Michael Eber reading "Christ, What a…...
Over There, Again
1+ mon, 3+ week ago (77+ words) Bartolomeo Vanzetti (left), handcuffed to Nicola Sacco (right), 1923, public domain via Wikimedia Commons. Image from the American Legion Weekly publication, 1922, public domain via Wikimedia Commons. Reflections on a year spent teaching history at the United States Military Academy At Contingent…...
To Invent Immortality — audio
2+ mon, 3+ week ago (90+ words) To Invent Immortality " audio'contingentmagazine.org Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 28:55 " 66.3MB) Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Email | RSS You have been listening to Vaughn Joy read her piece "To Invent Immortality," published inContingent Magazine's 2025 series A Time Of Monsters.At…...
Contingent Magazine Podcast Trailer
2+ mon, 3+ week ago (84+ words) Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 0:23 " 1.1MB) Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Email | RSS Coming soon! Stay tuned. At Contingent Magazine, we believe that history is for everyone, that every kind of history is worthwhile, and that historians should be paid…...
Beastly Transformations
3+ mon, 4+ day ago (311+ words) A playground in the Philadelphia neighborhood of Kensington, 2006. ChrisErb, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons A line of undead "zombies" walk through a field in the night in a still from the film Night Of The Living Dead. George Romero, 1968. Public…...
A Postcard from the Festival of Monsters
5+ mon, 1+ week ago (417+ words) In the weeks preceding the festival, I noticed monstrous event posters taking over the UC Santa Cruz campus. The stance of the poster's central creature (designed by a student!) reminds me of the Emcee from Cabaret. "Willkommen, bienvenue, welcome!" it…...