Bonnie and Clyde: Public Enemies of the 1930s

They don’t do criminal names like they used to.  Baby Face Nelson, Pretty Boy Floyd, Machine Gun Kelly, Francis “Two Gun” Crowley, Alvin “Creepy” Karpis. Their names were known far and wide. The newspapers loved them. They say that “if it bleeds, it leads”, and the coverage of Depression-era criminals was no exception. Arguably no […]

The Invention of Jaywalking

The invention of the road as a car-centered space is a relatively new one. For most of history up until the early twentieth century, streets were shared spaces where multiple activities took place