Henry Gunther was born into a German-American family in east Baltimore, Maryland, on June 6, 1895. His parents, George Gunther (1869-1919) and Lina Roth (1867-1930s), were both children of German i
Dan Flores is an environmental and western historian who is also a fantastic writer. Most of his books have been about life and history on the southwestern Plains, especially west Texas, where he grew
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So this morning Donald Trump said he doesn’t know the man he appointed to be Acting Attorney General of the United States. This statement is obviously and uncontroversially false, indeed ludic