This is the unmarked grave of Henry Scott. I don't know a lot about Scott, so this will be a short one. He's almost totally forgotten today. He doesn't even have a Wikipedia page. But he was an important tapdancer in Europe in the 1930s...
Author: Erik Loomis
This is the grave of Charles Mason. Born in 1728 in Oakridge, Stroud, Gloucestershire, England, Mason got some kind of an education and then ended up working as an astronomer.
This is the grave of Fred Hartley. Born in 1902 in Harrison, New Jersey, this person, responsible for one of the worst laws in American history, didn't grow up super.
On May 8, 1863, the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen was founded at a meeting in Marshall, Michigan. Today, the Engineers are one of the oldest unions in the country. Telling their story gets at many of the limitations of the American labor movement....
Ted Turner is dead. Although not much in the news for the past two decades, Turner played an outsized role in creating twenty-first century America. He wasn’t the worst billionaire.
I assume everyone actually knows the reason--that Trump will destroy them because the Republican voting base still sees him as their godking, but in case you don't know that: President.
This is the grave of Tom Glazer. Born in 1914 in Philadelphia, Glazer grew up in a Russian Jewish household. At least at first. But in fact, he had it really tough. His father died in the flu pandemic in 1918. His mother couldn't raise...
Racism is dead, according to John Roberts. Mississippi Republicans agree. When House members meet this month for a special session to redraw state Supreme Court districts, they will convene in the Old.
This is the grave of Homer Cummings. Born in Chicago in 1870, Cummings was pretty well off, went to some fancy private school in Buffalo, and then it was off.
I wish we could get back to important issues in this nation, like Obama's tan suit: A company backed by two of US President Donald Trump’s sons reportedly invested in a mining group that is developing a $1.1 billion tungsten project in Kazakhstan, Financial Times has found....
This is the grave of Elisha Bartlett. Born in 1804 in Smithfield, Rhode Island, Bartlett was well enough to get a good education, including at New York schools. He grew.
This is the grave of Anson Burlingame. Born in 1823 in New Berlin, New York, Burlingame mostly grew up in Ohio and then Michigan, as his parents moved west. He.