Welcome to a timeline of monumental mind- and soul-expanding media milestones. Read, view, absorb, experience any one — and you’ll be a bigger person with larger thoughts and deeper understanding.
In addition, it is my hope that a timeline of great works will…
- …provide readers with many hours of pleasure and mental stimulation.
- …reveal how long society has been aware of certain threats.
- …reveal how long solutions for certain threats have been available.
The timeline is a work-in-progress. Help me out, and share your mind-expanding media recommendations in the Comments Section.
LAST UPDATED: October 21, 2021
2021 Mind-Expanding Media
- Scared to Debt | Michael Camoin – July 26, 2021 (documentary series)
- Chris Hedges: “American Sadism” | Media Sanctuary – July 7, 2021 (speech)
- Roger Hallam: “Advice to Young People as They Face Annihilation” | Extinction Rebellion – June 9, 2021 (speech)
- The Black Church | PBS – February 8, 2021 (documentary series)
2020 Mind-Expanding Media
- Fall of Civilizations | – 2020+ (video series, also on YouTube)
- Caste | Isabel Wilkerson – August 4, 2020 (book)
- “No one ever makes a billion dollars. You take a billion dollars.” | Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez – January 20, 2020 (quote)
- American Dirt | Jeanine Cummins – January 21, 2020 (novel)
2019 Mind-Expanding Media
- Permanent Record | Edward Snowden – September 17, 2019 (book)
- Dying of Whiteness | Jonathan Metzl – March 5, 2019 (book)
2018 Mind-Expanding Media
- Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom | David W. Blight – October 16, 2018 (book)
- Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World | Anand Giridharadas – August 28, 2018 (book)
2016 Mind-Expanding Media
- I Am Not Your Negro | Raoul Peck – September 10, 2016 (documentary)
- Where To Invade Next | Michael Moore – February 12, 2016 (documentary)
- Nasty Woman | Nina Donovan – 2016 (poetry – note: performed by Ashley Judd at the 2017 Women’s D.C. March)
2015 Mind-Expanding Media
- Professor T | Eén (Belgium), 2015-2016 and 2018 (series)
- Larry Lessig: Our Democracy No Longer Represents the People. Here’s How We Fix It | TedxMidAtlantic – October 20, 2015 (speech)
- Between the World and Me | Ta-Nehisi Coates – July 14, 2015 (book)
- Requiem for the American Dream | Noam Chomsky – April 18, 2015 (documentary)
2014 Mind-Expanding Media
- This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate | Naomi Klein – September 16, 2014 (book)
- Nick Hanauer: “Beware, Fellow Plutocrats, the Pitchforks Are Coming” | TED – August 12, 2014 (speech)
2013 Mind-Expanding Media
- Revolutionary Summer: The Birth of American Independence | Joseph J. Ellis – June 4, 2013 (book)
2012 Mind-Expanding Media
- The Man Who Saved the Union: Ulysses Grant in War and Peace | H.W. Brands – October 2, 2012 (book)
- A Man Called Ove | Fredrik Backman – August 27, 2012 (novel)
- The Newsroom | HBO – 2012-2014 (series)
2008 Mind-Expanding Media
- The Hunger Games | Suzanne Collins – September 14, 2008 (novel)
2007 Mind-Expanding Media
2006 Mind-Expanding Media
- The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism | Naomi Klein – September 18, 2006 (book)
- An Inconvenient Truth: The Planetary Emergency of Global Warming and What We Can Do About It | Al Gore – May 24, 2006 (book)
- The Omnivore’s Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals | Michael Pollan – April 11, 2006 (book)
2005 Mind-Expanding Media
- Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln | Doris Kearns Goodwin – October 25, 2005 (book)
- Matt Taibbi: “Inside the Horror Show That Is Congress” | Rolling Stone – August 25, 2005 (article)
- A People’s History of the United States | Howard Zinn – August 2, 2005 (book)
2002 Mind-Expanding Media
- The Century of the Self | BBC – March 3, 2002 (documentary mini-series)
2000 Mind-Expanding Media
- Horse Heaven | Jane Smiley – April, 2000 (novel)
1997 Mind-Expanding Media
- Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies | Jared Diamond – May 9, 1997 (book)
1995 Mind-Expanding Media
- Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong | James Loewen – October 14, 1995 (book)
1992 Mind-Expanding Media
- Democracy | Leonard Cohen – 1992 (song)
1988 Mind-Expanding Media
- Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media | Edward S. Herman and Noam Chomsky – 1988 (book)
1987 Mind-Expanding Media
- Beloved | Toni Morrison – September 16, 1987 (novel)
1983 Mind-Expanding Media
- Winter’s Tale | Mark Helprin – 1983 (novel)
1982 Mind-Expanding Media
- The Color Purple | Alice Walker – 1982 (novel)
1971 Mind-Expanding Media
- The Revolution Will Not Be Televised | Gil Scott-Heron – 1971 (song)
1968 Mind-Expanding Media
- Martin Luther King, Jr.: I’ve Been to the Mountaintop | Memphis, Tennessee – April 3, 1968 (speech)
1967 Mind-Expanding Media
- One Hundred Years of Solitude | Gabriel García Márquez – May, 1967 (novel)
- Martin Luther King, Jr.: The Other America | Stanford University – April 14, 1967 (speech)
- Martin Luther King, Jr.: Beyond Vietnam: A Time to Break the Silence | Riverside Church, New York City – April 4, 1967 (speech)
1966 Mind-Expanding Media
- Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community? | Martin Luther King, Jr. – November 30, 1966 (book)
1965 Mind-Expanding Media
- Unsafe at Any Speed: The Designed-In Dangers of the American Automobile | Ralph Nader – November 30, 1965 (book)
- Martin Luther King, Jr.: Our God Is Marching On | Selma, Alabama – August 25, 1965 (speech)
- Martin Luther King, Jr.: The American Dream | Ebenezer Baptist Church, Atlanta, Georgia – July 4, 1965 (speech – note: references “untouchables”)
1963 Mind-Expanding Media
- Martin Luther King, Jr.: I Have a Dream | Washington D.C. – August 28, 1963 (speech)
- Cat’s Cradle | Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. – 1963 (novel)
1962 Mind-Expanding Media
- Silent Spring | Rachel Carson – September 27, 1962 (book)
1961 Mind-Expanding Media
- Catch-22 | Joseph Heller – November 10, 1961 (novel)
- Black Like Me | John Howard Griffin – 1961 (book)
1960 Mind-Expanding Media
- To Kill a Mockingbird | Harper Lee – July 11, 1960 (novel)
1958 Mind-Expanding Media
- Things Fall Apart | Chinua Achebe – 1958 (novel)
1953 Mind-Expanding Media
- Fahrenheit 451 | Ray Bradbury – October 13, 1953 (novel)
- Go Tell It on the Mountain | James Baldwin – May 18, 1953 (novel)
1949 Mind-Expanding Media
- 1984 | George Orwell – April 8, 1949 (novel)
1948 Mind-Expanding Media
- We Shall Overcome | Pete Seeger, 1948 (song)
1947 Mind-Expanding Media
- The Diary of a Young Girl | Anne Frank – June, 1947 (book)
1946 Mind-Expanding Media
- Man’s Search for Meaning | Viktor Frankl – 1946 (book)
1945 Mind-Expanding Media
- Animal Farm | George Orwell – August 17, 1945 (novel)
- This Land Is Your Land | Woody Guthrie, 1945 (song)
1942 Mind-Expanding Media
- Dragon’s Teeth | Upton Sinclair – (novel, #3 in 11-part series)
1940 Mind-Expanding Media
- The Great Dictator | Charlie Chaplin, 1940 (film)
1939 Mind-Expanding Media
- Grapes of Wrath | John Steinbeck – April 14, 1939 (novel)
1932 Mind-Expanding Media
- Brave New World | Aldous Huxley – 1932 (novel)
1931 Mind-Expanding Media
- Which Side Are You On? | Florence Reece, 1931 (song)
1905 Mind-Expanding Media
- The Jungle | Upton Sinclair – February 25, 1905 (novel)
1854 Mind-Expanding Media
- Walden | Henry David Thoreau – August 9, 1854 (book)
1852 Mind-Expanding Media
- What to the Slave Is the 4th of July? | Frederick Douglass – July 5, 1852 (speech)
1838 Mind-Expanding Media
- Oliver Twist | Charles Dickens – 1838 (novel)
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