Author: Erik Loomis
Joseph Kossuth Dixon staged photograph of Native Americans riding into the sunset, 1913 Larger version of this image at the Library of Congress website. No info though on which tribe.
Somewhere in this section of this columbarium lies the unmarked grave of Walter Bradford Cannon. Born in 1871 in Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin, Cannon came from an old French-Canadian family.
This is the grave of Sylvester Graham. Born in 1794 in Suffield, Connecticut, Graham grew up in a tough household. For one, the family had 17 children. For another, his.
Time to start a new LGM series: Images from American history. Just an image a day, a way to spark conversation about the past and present. The Head Start Program.
This is pretty interesting: An effort to legally recognize college football and basketball players at the University of Southern California as employees of their school, their conference and the NCAA.
Horses working to carry milk killed by electrocution during an ice storm, Portland, Oregon, 1907
This is an interesting discussion of why we should tax prison labor. It seems a bit off to me--for me, the point of taxing prison labor would be to disincentivize.
You want to politicize vaccines, you will die for your whiteness: As the coronavirus pandemic approaches its third full winter, two studies reveal an uncomfortable truth: The toxicity of partisan.