This is the grave of Raul Alfonsín. Born in 1923 in Chascomús, a small town a few hours south of Buenos Aires today, Alfonsín did not grow up in the Argentine elite. His parents ran a shop, They were upwardly mobile, but for the elite...
Author: Erik Loomis
A mugshot of Eugene V. Debs with his prisoner number in 1920. He was imprisoned in the Atlanta Federal Penitentiary for speaking out against the draft during World War I..
This is the grave of Manuel Dorrego. Born in 1787 in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Dorrego was the son of a Portuguese merchant and an Argentine woman. They had money and.
The Times is trying to gin up interest in the nation's 250th anniversary, largely unsuccessfully because basically no one cares, regardless of political position. No one really finds much to celebrate about the United States, very much including myself. We can talk about that and...
This is the grave of Paul Mangelsdorf. Born in 1899 in Atchison, Kansas, Mangelsdorf grew up in a German immigrant family. His father ran a seed store. The young'un was.
Here’s my reading list for June. This is last month’s list and you can follow it back from there. Professional Reading: Cheryl Troupe, Putting Down Roots: Metis Agency, Land Use, and.
This is the grave of Lloyd Waner. Born in 1906 in Harrah, Oklahoma, Waner grew up on a farm. It was hard work and the kids--Lloyd and Paul--didn't really have leisure time. What they had was playing a little baseball at sunset. Their father had...
This is the grave of Oscar Handlin. Born in 1915 in Brooklyn, Handlin grew up in a Jewish immigrant household. Both parents had come from Russia, but I think they.
I've been in Argentina and now Chile for three weeks now and have been to both of the museums for the relevant dictatorships: ESMA in Buenos Aires and the Museum.
This is the grave of Joseph Berliner. Born in 1921 in New York, Berliner grew up in Rockaway Beach, Queens. He was a very smart kid and got into Harvard, where he did a bachelor's and then stayed on for the PhD. He became an...
I get very angry when people use the term "Luddite" to describe anything that questions the technological futurism of our society, a futurism across the political spectrum. One big problem--the.
Building on Paul's discussion of Vance embracing Richard Nixon from the other day. A couple of days before that, a friend of mine sent me this Vanity Fair article on.