Look, I don’t have a lot of pretense that I am changing the world too much with my writing, largely because a few online articles and writing for a blog–and we all know how important blogs
On June 11, 1352, a series of trials were held against laborers from Wiltshire, England who had violated a 1349 ordinance that decreed that all laborers must accept the wages they had received in 1346
I thought this was one of the finest op-eds I have ever read. Today, a quarter of a billion people are migrants. They are moving because the rich countries have stolen the future of the poor countries
On June 9, 1880, the Greenback Party’s political convention began in Chicago. While the Greenbackers would not make a long-term impact on American political life, they were indicative of the gre
This post will contain plenty of spoilers from the Deadwood movie, so I don’t want to hear any complaints from you hoopleheads. Like many of you, I waited with great anticipation for the Deadwoo
This is the grave of Mark White. Born in 1940 in Henderson, Texas, White grew up in Houston and attended Baylor University in Waco. He then received his law degree from Baylor in 1965. He started a la
This is the grave of Dan Moody. Born in 1893 in Taylor, Texas, Dan Moody’s father was a local political leader and his mother was a school teacher. He went to the University of Texas and then it
I had the opportunity to review Peter Cole’s excellent new book at H-Net and since that’s a public resource, I thought I would share the first few paragraphs here: Peter Cole’s superb ex