An article (with photos) on an exhibition about Jan Palach’s funeral in Prague.
Filed under ‘Samizdat’
In 1975, Hedrick Smith wrote a great article for the New York Times Magazine on the Soviet culture of hiding information and its consequences for ordinary people.
Steven Shapin in The New Yorker on cholera and John Snow’s use of maps to end the 1848 outbreak in SoHo, London.