The History Issue

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Eight Photographers Look Back

Photos by Jonathan Black, Brandon Herman, David Titlow, Carolina Manaigo, Ben Ritter, Ed Zipco, Alex Sturrock, and Jamie Warren Full story

Oh What a Paradise It Seems

Photos by Roe Ethridge; Styling by Annette Lamothe-Ramos and Mordechai Rubinstein Full story

Chinese Natural History Museum

Last year, Belgian photojournalist Nick Hannes took a year off from shooting warzones all over the world and travelled from Antwerp to Vladivostok and somehow then ended up in Beijing. Full story

David Wallechinsky Is A Human Encyclopedia

A longtime reader of this magazine (such as yourself) already knows about David Wallechinsky because you read the People's Lists feature in every issue. Full story

Master Of Minutia

Martin Monestier Really Knows His Shit

You've probably never heard of Martin Monestier, but he is literally one of the best people ever. Full story

Raw China

Wash Your Body

When I first moved into the neighborhood I took a walk with my friend who's an old China hand and helped me find an apartment. Full story

Vice Fashion - Night Skating In Old London Town

Last month I went skating with some friends around London’s most famous and historical spots. Full story

Pogue Mahone Means Kiss My Arse

An Interview With Shane MacGowan

We won’t go too much into who Shane MacGowan is here because, for God’s sake, you should know. Full story

A Dirty Little Rag With Filth In It

Richard Neville Looks Back On Oz

Back in the late 1950s, when Richard Neville finished high school, Australia was in many ways, uh, what’s the word? Oh that’s right…totally fucked. Full story

Sammy Devil Jr.

The Candy Man Was a Satanist

If nobody else is willing to say this out loud, I'll step up to the plate. Barack Obama is totally ripping off Sammy Davis Jr. Full story

Zinn And The Art Of History Maintenance

A People's Chat With Howard

Though not quite yet a household name, as historians and public intellectuals go, Howard Zinn has in the last few years become increasingly present in the public eye (whatever that is). Full story

England Is The Place For Me

Val Wilmer's Hidden Photographs Uncovered: A Forgotten History of Black London

While certain rock stars with surnames that rhyme with "dagger" were making pained efforts to be seen to be hip on the 60s scene in London, Val Wilmer was living in the calypso, jazz and highlife alternative. Full story

More Chinese Body Shots

A Viceland Exclusive

As a Sunday afternoon bonus, here are a few more shots taken at the body-part wing of the Beijing Natural History Museum. Full story

Peace In The Middle West

How Israel Almost Ended Up In The Kimberleys

When you think about it, there's got to be a better place for Israel than the Middle East. Full story

American Eros

From the Hypothermic to the Hypothetical

We started out that morning from an 18th-century graveyard adjacent to Wharton State Forest in the Pine Barrens of southern New Jersey and made our way northward up the sandy trails that run through the oak and pine forest on the southwest edge of the Great Swamp. Full story

Vice Fashion - Berlin Punks Look Back And Laugh

Over the last 10 years Berlin's punks have all but disappeared from the city's streets. Full story

Vice Fashion - The Battle Of Hastings

Photos by Valerie Phillips; Styling by Aldene Johnson. Full story

A Conversation With Lewis Lapham

Lewis Lapham is one of our most distinguished editors and essayists, called “a connoisseur of the perfect word." Full story

Rogues & Upstarts

Here Be the Standouts of Our Convict Stain

Over 160,000 poor, poor convicts were stuffed into the hulls of tall ships and transported from the Mother Land to Australia between 1788 and 1868. Full story

Yesterday's Tomorrow Is Today's Colossal Disappointment

A History of the Future (in Movies)

For 100 years, movies have tried to show us what the future might hold. Now, in 2008 (which is officially "the future"), we can look back and say: They were almost entirely wrong. Nevertheless, here are their best efforts. Full story

Blood Splashed On A Daisy In The Sunshine

An Interview With Siouxsie Sioux

When Siouxsie Sioux climbed onstage at the 100 Club in September 1976 with a band made up of nonmusician buddies-Marco Pirroni, Steven Severin, and Sid Vicious-she probably wasn't thinking about world tours with roadies, lighting rigs, and costume changes. Full story

Vice Comics

By Johnny Ryan

U.S. HISTORY FUN FACTS Full story

John Cheever Goes Under

In 1974, John Cheever accepted a teaching position at Boston University, the better to distance himself from his family and drink in peace. Full story

Napoleon Bonaparte

The Vice Interview

The worst thing about history is the fact that most of the really cool stuff happened centuries ago so anyone who can tell you anything remotely vivid about it has been dead for ages. Full story

Our Hero

Four Artists Draw Ned Kelly

Illustrations by Brendan Keogh, Justin Williams, Kelly Smith & Rowan Tedge Full story

The Diseases Of Our Leaders

By Neil Hamburger, Comedian

Those who do not learn from history are condemned to repeat it. That's what someone said. Full story

The History Of Dad

The Vice Interview

My father Stephen has done a lot of pretty cool things that have been significant in recent British history. He started something called the Boilerhouse Project at the V&A in the 80s, set up the Design Museum, wrote a book called Sex, Drink and Fast Cars and didn't let me Full story

Literary

Book Reviews - The History Issue

We recently got our hands on a few “history” books a friend of ours brought back from Pyongyang. Full story

Skinema

Amy Fisher / Joey Buttafuoco Caught On Tape

How was your weekend? Mine was shitty. Me and my wife went down with the flu for two weeks and were running 102 fevers, bedridden, and about to tear each other's heads off. Full story

Bloodclot!

John Joseph of the Cro-Mags Makes the Rest of Us Look Like Pussies

One morning on my way to work, hungover and feeling sorry for myself, I ran into John Joseph, who I knew a little bit through our mutual friends in the hardcore scene in New York. Full story

The Kids Were Alright

Selections From Ryan McGinley's Early Work, 1998-2003

These are photos from the fucked-up party days, from when Ryan first started taking pictures of all his crazy friends up to when he had his solo show at the Whitney Museum, which flung him like a wet young noodle into the boiling pot of the art world. Full story

Our Willy

Five Artists Draw Willy Brandt

By Chriss Kunst, Jakob Hinrichs, Vanskap, Mario Wagner, and Mathieu Desjardi. Full story

The Epicly Later'd Page

I remember Jerry Hsu coming to New York in 2001 and 2002, back before he knew anyone here. He was probably 17 but I thought he was 24. Full story

Whsshkkkk! - Part 1

Rat Bastard Is the King of Noise

Some facts about a man named Rat Bastard: Born Frank Falestra and unceremoniously given his current moniker by a shitty punk band he recorded 20 years ago, he lives in Miami, three blocks away from the thong-riddled shores of South Beach. Full story

I Don't Feel At Home In This World Anymore

J. Spaceman on the Strange and Beautiful Canon of Mississippi Records

I've always had this belief that if you produce something beautiful, and it's packaged beautifully and has had some love and attention invested in it, then somebody will want it. Full story

Records

Music Reviews - The History Issue

If you aren’t up on Paper Route Recordz, get familiar. These dudes have been putting it down in Bama for a minute now. With a little push from Benzi and Diplo, the crew is getting ready to blow up like yeast. Full story

VICE Mail

Letters - The History Issue

We don’t know what she’s talking about, but this is the first handwritten letter we’ve gotten in years and look how pretty it is. It’s like an antique. I wonder if she used a feather dipped in ink to write it. Full story

The Iron Lady: Margaret Thatcher

Seven Artists Draw the Woman Who Changed the UK

Margaret Thatcher died today at the age of 87 after suffering from dementia for some time. To commemorate her memory we've unearthed a Thatcher-portrait series we published a few years ago. It's fair to say she looked the most dignified when she was drawn on a turkey. Full story

Big And Ugly

Primitive Calculators On Kick-Starting the Aussie "Little Band" Scene

It's 1979 and Robert 'Simply Irresistible' Palmer stands at the back of a dingy Melbourne venue in his best pop star finery looking at the stage in mild disgust. Someone from his entourage has dragged him along to a Little Bands night and he doesn't like what he hears. At all. Full story

There's Something Going On That's Not Quite Right

Wire Still Do Care

Wire occupy a special place in the history of London 77. Unlike all the bands who broke up after losing steam only to cash in 20 years down the road with reunion after reunion, they never lost steam. Full story

Hey, Where Did Bridget Cross Go?

Alaska, If You Must Know

How cool is Bridget Cross? She was the bassist for Unrest, the king of all early-90s indie bands, plus she was in Velocity Girl and Air Miami. If you cared about underground music in the 90s, she's already one of your crushes/heroes. Full story

Cogitations Upon The Nature Of History

They say that history is written by the winners. One day the feral scum of Britain will win and roam the country free. My problem is that they can't read or write. Full story

History On Repeat Forever And Ever

Ophelia Field Traces Vice's Ancestors

Ophelia Field is a young and articulate graduate of Christ Church College, Oxford and the London School of Economics. She knows a lot more than you about the early 18th Century. Full story

Shafted

A Guide to Sex and Death in the Old West

Harry S. Truman once said, "America was built on courage, on imagination, and an unbeatable determination to do the job at hand." But that's bullshit: It was built by thieves, drunks, and whores whose job at hand was giving hand jobs. Full story

This Guy Hunts Down Nazis

What Have You Been Up to Lately?

Dr. Efraim Zuroff oversees Operation: Last Chance, an organization that tracks down the remaining geriatric dickheads who were responsible for the Holocaust. Full story

Thomas Cahill Is Saving Civilization

Over the course of books such as How the Irish Saved Civilization, Sailing the Wine-Dark Seas, and Mysteries of the Middle Ages, historian Thomas Cahill has done more for making ancient history readable and entertaining than all the cobweb-covered professors sitting in all the un… Full story

Video Games Killed The Radio Star

Games Reviews - The History Issue

This isn’t particularly fair. It’s like they’ve told me to review the universe in a text message. Full story

Our Father

Six Artists Draw Washington

Illustrations by Brian Degraw, Jon Vermilyea, Laura Park, Victor Cayro, Aran Darling & Milano Chow. Full story

The Saga Of True Norwegian Black Metal

I met Metalion during a drunken night at Oslo's Inferno Festival in 2003. I was impressed by his kind nature and unparalleled knowledge of extreme metal, so we stayed in touch over the next few years, occasionally geeking out over cameras and records. Full story

Prancehall

I was walking down the street the other day when I had an epiphany. I turned to my reflection in a nearby shop window and said, "Hey, you know what? There's more to the world than just UrBaN Mu$iC in that Do It! column." Full story

Whsshkkkk! - Part 2

Rat Bastard Is the King of Noise

In the 1980s I was in bands, three or four guys trying to play music together. It wasn’t necessarily good or well practiced, but they were always like, “Hey, let’s try to play that song again. Let’s prove we can actually write this stuff.” Full story