Author: Erik Loomis
Remember folks, Republicans hate you and don't care if you live or die. Five days ahead of the midterm elections, President Donald Trump’s top economic adviser took to trashing the.
This is the grave of Mary Custis Lee. Born in 1807, Mary Custis was born into the highest ranking of the Virginia elite. She was Martha Washington's great-granddaughter after all..
On October 29, 1889, whites in Hawaii lynched the Japanese organizer and merchant Katsu Goto in Hawaii after opening a store to compete with the plantation company store and advocating.
This is the grave of Susan B. Anthony. Born in 1820 in Adams, Massachusetts, her family was deeply steeped in the social reform of the antebellum period. Her father was.
What a time to be alive. A senior official at the Veterans Affairs Department hung a painting of the first Ku Klux Klan grand wizard and Confederate general in his.
This is the grave of Thomas Wentworth Higginson. Born in 1823 in Cambridge to an old Puritan family, Higginson started at Harvard at age 13 and graduated in 1841. He.
I haven't been posting much, just as I haven't been doing most of the normal things in my life, because of an overwhelming teaching load that has reached critical mass.
This is the grave of Dorothy Parker. Born Dorothy Rothschild in 1893, she had an unhappy childhood. Her mother died when she was a toddler, her father abused her, and.