This is the grave of Matthias Baldwin. Born in 1795 in Elizabethtown, New Jersey, Baldwin was wealthy as a small child. His father was a builder of fancy carriages for the rich and did very well for himself. But dad died in 1799 and the...
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Tonight's let look at this amazing footage of the 1968 Democratic National Convention. https://www.youtube.com/embed/fqNkmZ3n_bc This was preserved by the National Film Preservation Foundation and they have an interesting description to.
Comrade Hawley is really pushing the populist rhetoric these days unlike those sellout Dems! Let me explain this to you. Corporate liberals are woke capitalists. The corporatists love critical race.
If only we were governed by the Cherokee Nation rather than Donald Trump and Kristi Noem and Mitch McConnell. With a mask mandate in place since spring, free drive-through testing, hospitals well-stocked with PPE, and a small army of public health officers fully supported by...
Look, how can American capitalism survive without forced labor that allows companies to manufacture their products for peanuts? Nike and Coca-Cola are among the major companies and business groups lobbying.
This is the grave of Milt Davis. Born in 1929 in Muskogee, Oklahoma, Davis was half-Black and half-Native, growing up in Jim Crow Los Angeles, which was pretty segregated at.
We started our day with women's suffrage so let's end it there too, with this 1912 anti-suffrage film, A Lively Affair. The messaging on this is horrible, basically saying that women are using suffrage as an excuse to gamble, ignore their kids, steal bikes, henpeck...
Richard Yeselson has an excellent rundown on the good, the bad, and the ugly of the labor movement in the aftermath of what was a successful presidential election, if significantly.
White House senior policy advisor Stephen Miller (R) joins Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders to discuss U.S. immigration policy at the daily briefing at the White House in Washington, U.S..
An Amazon associate picks items from a mobile shelving unit called a pod at the newest Amazon Robotics fulfillment center during its first public tour on April 12, 2019 in the Lake Nona community of Orlando, Florida. The over 855,000 square foot facility opened on...
For my latest podcast with authors of recent books, I had the great pleasure of talking to Cathleen Cahill, associate professor of history at Penn State, about her fantastic new.
This is the grave of Gouverneur Morris. Born in 1752 on an estate in what is today The Bronx, Morris grew up as part of the late colonial elite. His.