Month: February 2022
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Our All-American Aliens
From 1907 to 1931, an American woman would lose her citizenship if she married a non-American man, taking the husband’s nationality instead — even if she’d never visited the country in question or spoke the language. This 1922 New York Times Magazine article explained the situation: Few people realize that there is in this country a…
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Putting the Music Into the Jazz
In 1922, bandleaders like Paul Whitehead were transforming jazz from an art form some considered unrefined, into more classical-infused symphonic jazz like Rhapsody in Blue, the iconic piece Whitehead commissioned two years later. Racial subtext was at play here, with “unrefined” and “refined” often serving as euphemisms for what was really going on: jazz originated…
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The Old Pope and Papal Prestige
In February 1922, there was a new pope: Pius XI. The man born Ambrogio Damiano Achille Ratti would serve for 17 years and lead Vatican City’s creation as a sovereign state in 1929, separate from Italy. This New York Times Magazine article wrote in February 1922 of the new pope, comparing and contrasting him with…
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