1926 was the beginning of that Art Deco era we think of when we picture ‘the 20s’ in our head - the economy was booming, the skirts were short, and jazz was everywhere. Rudolph Valentino lying in state, August, 1926 Newspaper headlines reported on the deaths of Harry Houdini and Rudolph Valentino, as well as the criminal underworld made famous by Al Capone. In news from around the world Mussolini embodied ‘totalitarianism’ as he promoted himself to head Italy’s military, reintroduced the...

One word comes to mind when I think of 2025 – exhaustion. We are all tired. We are tired of doomscrolling, rage bait, making ends meet, the Middle East, inexcusable Russian aggression, shopping for Canadian-made products over U.S. imports, A.I., climate change,and whatever Donald Trump, in his blue suit and red tie uniform, has done today… New York Times calls the look 'West Village Girl' Fashion in 2025 responded to our BREAKING NEWS world by going ‘meh’ - everyone retreated into normcore...

Easter Sunday, 1925, Toronto Ma Ferguson, Governor of Texas, 1925 In 1925, New York became the most populous city in the world. Calvin Coolidge was inaugurated as the 30th president of the United States, and Nellie Taylor Ross of Wyoming and Ma Ferguson of Texas became the first female Governors. However, despite positive changes for American women in Washington D.C., the capital was also the site that year for a march for 30,000 supporters of the Ku Klux Klan. In Tennessee and Texas, a law...