It's nice that Congressional Republicans tried to use the Zika funding bill for the all-important goal of reversing the ban on flying the Confederate flag in national cemeteries.
Author: Erik Loomis
I am no Supreme Court expert, but this preview of the next term looks promising, primarily because of what the Court is not going to hear. First and most importantly.
As a response to growing labor unrest, in 1916, major corporations decided to create the National Industrial Conference Board to undertake investigations of their own to show how much families.
Most of these posts have discussed texts that there really isn't much point for normal people to read. This post is an exception. Edward Carpenter's furious 1916 pamphlet Never Again!, a plea to the people of Europe to never allow such a horrible war to...
During the peak of his fame as a private investigator and head-buster for capitalism, Allan Pinkerton "wrote" some detective stories. There's no evidence Pinkerton actually wrote a word of them.
From almost the beginning of U.S. history to I guess about World War I, American writers and thinkers were obsessed with what it meant to be an American. What made.
In 1909, an editor in Quebec released an anonymous, fragmentary diary of a U.S. officer captured in the War of 1812 and held prisoner. It's titled Journal of an American Prisoner at Fort Malden and Quebec in the War of 1812. As I've observed reading...
Jill Stein did a Reddit awhile back. She was asked about vaccines. Her response: I don't know if we have an "official" stance, but I can tell you my personal.
The genre of "rich person going undercover to show us what the real life of the working class is like" is pretty old now, going from at least the mid-nineteenth.
What's the point of looking into old historical texts if not to explore texts about surgery? Thus, Gutenberg presents us with David Yandell's 1890 treatise, Pioneer Surgery in Kentucky: A Sketch. * You know this is going to be illuminating. How drunk was everyone involved?...
Lest one think that the Gutenberg Project only provides bizarre books of America's past that make ridiculous arguments, let me at least point out that you can access such texts.
This is the grave of George Washington. There's one much one can say about Washington, so just a couple of points. 1) His choosing to step down from power peacefully.