Author: Erik Loomis
Just another day in America, where corporations pollute and no one makes them clean it up. Vina Colley, a slight woman with a bob of thick blond hair, climbs into.
This is the grave of Lou Gorman. Born in 1929 in Providence, Rhode Island, Gorman was a huge baseball fan. He played high school ball at La Salle Academy, the.
Upping Jamelle Bouie's piece today. Trump is not an aberration in American history, except for arguably his personal behavior. Otherwise, everything about him is something that other presidents have also.
In today's podcast, I interview Andrew Sandoval-Strausz from Penn State University about his 2019 book Barrio America: How Latino Immigrants Saved the American City. This is an absolutely fascinating study.
This is the sign memorializing the unmarked graves of the Native chiefs who died in Philadelphia's yellow fever epidemic of 1793. You can read the sign so I don't need.
This is the grave of Saul Yanofsky. Born in Russia in 1864, Yanofsky (sometimes spelled Yanovsky) is primarily known today for being the editor of Yiddish-language anarchist newspapers in New.
It's been a brutal week for the outlaw country movement. I mentioned the deaths of Johnny Bush and Jerry Jeff Walker in the last Music Notes post. But for me,.
We have our annual (at least) longing to fix our national problems through reviving the Civilian Conservation Corps. In 1933, with the country deep in the Great Depression, the United.