On December 6, 1907 the Monongah Mining Disaster in West Virginia killed at least 362 workers but probably over 500. This remains the most deadly mining disaster in American history. Coal mining was a
This is the grave of Ray Stannard Baker. Born in 1870 in Lansing, Michigan, Baker went to Michigan State Agricultural College, which is now Michigan State University. He then got a law degree at the U
Since the Harris post has over 1,000 comments for some reason, even though hardly anyone actually supported her candidacy, let me just make one thing clear: If the centrists support white candidates a
I don’t really have thoughts on this except to say that she after that brief surge over the summer, she didn’t really run a very good campaign. Of course, people such as Booker and Castro
On December 1, 1868, a young black former Union soldier named John Henry was among a group of convicts sent from Richmond to West Virginia to blast a railroad tunnel, where he would soon die. Everyone
While I’d probably argue that Andrew Jackson might be the most analogous comparison to Trump, certainly Andrew Johnson is a comparison many have usefully made and it’s probably more releva
This is the grave of Abigail Adams. Born in 1744 in Weymouth, Massachusetts, Abigail Smith grew up as a minster’s daughter with deep roots in the Puritan past. Although she did not have formal s
On November 28, 1901, a strike among Cuban cigar workers in Tampa, Florida collapsed after workers inspired by the Cuban revolutionary Jose Martí sought to create a cross-racial organization to resis