This is the grave of Annie Webb Blanton. Born in 1870 in Houston, Texas, Blanton grew up pretty well off, though her mother died when she was 12. By that time, the family was living in the town of LaGrange, Texas. Many in her family...
Author: Erik Loomis
Last night, I watched the 2021 film The American Sector. Directed by Courtney Stephens and Pacho Velez, it looks at all the random places in the United States where pieces.
Scene between the National Guard and Black men, Chicago Race Riot, 1919
Now, I happen to like sundried tomatoes and goat cheese. But they can be overused for sure and that is part of the story of California cuisine. I found this little history of the form at Eater to be really quite interesting. The author tells...
It would be nice to think that the recent organizing campaigns at places such as Amazon and Starbucks were changing the overall picture of the labor movement. But it takes.
Capital mobility can hamper decent labor protections in a few ways. As I pointed out in Out of Sight (amazingly that book came out 8 years ago, man I gotta.
This is the grave of Robert Neyland. Born in 1892 in Greeneville, Texas, Neyland was a football star with military ambitions. He moved around a bit as a college player, climbing the latter. He went to a junior college for a year, then transferred to...
You hire Mike McCarthy, you get Mike McCarthy. I mean, sure, Jerry Jones could hire DeMeco Ryans, but there's something in Jones' history that suggests this is mildly unlikely.....
This is the grave of Benjamin Goodrich. Born in 1841 in Ripley, New York, he spent his childhood years in that small town. But by the time he was 8,.
No shows this week, still in a drought but they are slowly coming onto my winter and spring calendar. But I did finish reading Philippe Carles and Jean-Louis Comolli's 1971 book Free Jazz/Black Power and figured I'd talk about it a bit here. This is...
I am teaching a graduate seminar this spring on methodologies of environmental history. As such, I have assigned the following books, with an emphasis on recent top books, but with.
There's been a lot of nurses strikes lately and for good reason--they are treated horribly, a sign of our terrible medical system for profit. Like a lot unions these days,.