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Documents That Changed the World

Joe Janes

A look at documents that have made a difference in the world. Joe Janes,

  • "First" Social Security Number, 1936
    Who's got your number? Hopefully nobody who isn't supposed to - the origins of the number we (almost) all live by, why and how it's become so necessary, and what happens when you die - or somebody thinks you have
    23 December 2024, 7:00 am
  • Incan Quipu (knotted fiber cords), by c1300
    How can you know what you can't read? A writing system without a key, suspended knots and strings we can't interpret, leaving entire peoples also in suspense to understand their past and stories (researched/written by Diego Licea)
    22 December 2024, 7:00 am
  • Sumerian Complaint Tablet, c1750 BCE
    "How dare you treat me like this?" The cry of untold millions of consumers with a grievance to air, or type, or phone in - or bake into clay tablets, in the faint but eternal hope of being heard (researched/written by Ellianna Thayne)
    11 August 2024, 7:00 am
  • Oldest Known Galaxy, 13+ billion years ago
    How is a galaxy a document? How could it change the world? Well, look out there, as far as we can see, and even farther - and then look inside, and maybe you'll find out.
    19 July 2024, 7:00 am
  • Mètre des Archives (original standard meter), 1799
    I love you, a bushel and a peck - or maybe an acre, or fathom, or hundredweight, or any of the thousands of measurements we have created, which somebody has to establish and standardize, like the meter, one way or the other
    9 July 2024, 7:00 am
  • Egyptian "Book of the Dead", c1600 BCE
    The road map and guide book to the afterlife, all spelled out to ensure a successful and surprisingly personalized journey
    11 September 2023, 7:00 am
  • Emily Post's Etiquette, 1922
    According to Emily Post...etiquette is meant to make people feel comfortable and at ease, and the more who know the better - and it's not about the forks
    22 July 2023, 9:00 am
  • Universal Declaration of Human Rights, 1948
    Human rights and how they came to be recognized, agreed upon and most importantly recorded and declared, for all of us to share
    17 June 2022, 9:00 am
  • Electoral College Documents, 2020
    Papers, signatures, seals, ceremonies, rules that produce documents to let hundreds speak for millions in having their say in the most important decision they make
    3 January 2021, 9:00 am
  • World's Fair Time Capsule, 1938
    The best known example of an attempt to help the future to understand the present when it's the past, even 5000 years on
    6 August 2020, 9:00 am
  • Articles of Impeachment, 1868
    The extraordinary ordinariness of articles of impeachment, then and now, and the lessons to be learned, over and over again
    29 July 2020, 9:00 am
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