Been way too long since I've finished one of these posts. That me not finishing things coincided with the start of classes is not a coincidence.. One thing I've noticed over the years, and maybe this is something that has clotted in my mind just...
Author: Erik Loomis
Spectators use paper bags over their heads during the first half of an NFL football game between the New York Jets and the Arizona Cardinals, Sunday, Dec. 2, 2012, in.
This is the grave of Isaac Hull. Born in 1773 in Derby, Connecticut, Hull grew up on the water. His father was a ship captain trading in the West Indies.
This is the grave of William Duane, Jr. Born in 1780 in Clonmel County, Ireland, Duane immigrated with his parents to Philadelphia in 1796. His father, the radical Jeffersonian newspaper editor William Duane, Sr., was most known for being the main target of the Alien...
This is the grave of O.O. Howard. Oliver Otis Howard was born in Leeds, Maine in 1830. His father, a farmer, died, when the boy was 9 years old. But.
This is the grave of Jay Cooke. Born in 1821 in Sandusky, Ohio, Cooke grew up in a strong Whig household. His father was a Ohio state legislator and served.
This is the grave of Lou Gehrig. Born in 1903 in Manhattan, Heinrich Ludwig Gehrig was the son of German immigrants. His father was a drunk sheet-metal worker who sometimes worked. His mother was a maid who kept the family together, even though he lost...
This is the grave of Edmond Genêt. Born in 1763 in Versallies, France, Edmond-Charles Genêt was the son of a civil servant, head clerk in Louis XV's ministry of foreign.
For today's podcast, I interviewed Kent Blansett, Langston Hughes Associate Professor of Indigenous Studies and History at the University of Kansas, on his book Journey to Freedom: Richard Oakes, Alcatraz,.
This is the grave of John Corridan. Born in 1911 in Harlem, Corridan grew up poor. His father was an Irish-American cop, but he died shortly after John was born. The family had almost nothing. He graduated from high school in 1928 and went to...
Doctor Utopia is in the 1948 house ready to destroy you with all his isms, but Thank God Common Sense America is there to protect us from this dastardly foreigner.
Vicente Albán, “Indian Woman in Special Attire (India en traje de gala)," circa 1783, owned by Los Angeles County Museum of Art This is an interesting write up of the.