As is true of other historical subjects which focus on the material products of human ingenuity, the history of aviation is nearly always written with an eye toward achievements understood to have defined (or best represented) a particular period or era. No art historian, for example, would consider a survey of Western art complete without [...]

In a recent entry cross-posted at HNN’s Revise and Dissent and his own blog Airminded, Brett Holman ruminates on the apparent differences that existed in the manner in which American and British audiences responded to the advent of the airplane age. Inspired by his reading of Joseph Corn’s The Winged Gospel, which noted that American [...]

In the early spring of 2005, a Scottish art collective known as Henry VIII’s Wives launched a new project in homage to one of the twentieth century’s greatest avant-garde works: “Tatlin’s Tower.” Their ongoing project proposes

to build the Tower, full size from steel girders and guy wires. It will be built in sections, [...]