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Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 157

By Erik Loomis

In General

On October 17, 2017

This is the mass grave for the victims of the 1890 genocidal massacre of the Lakota at Wounded Knee. I assume that everyone knows the story of Wounded Knee, but maybe they don’t, so I guess I will lay it out. The short version is that the United States has committed unspeakable genocide against indigenous […]

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Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 156

By Erik Loomis

On October 16, 2017

This is the grave of Charles Evans Hughes. Born in 1862 in Glens Falls, New York, Hughes enrolled at what is today Colgate University at the age of 14, transferred to Brown, and graduated at the age o

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Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 155

By Erik Loomis

On October 15, 2017

This is the grave of Ed Muskie. Born in 1914 to a Polish immigrant father originally named Stephen Marciszewski before he changed his name when he immigrated in 1903, Muskie grew up in a working-class

Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 154

By Erik Loomis

In General

On October 14, 2017

This is the grave of George McNeill. The so-called “Father of the Eight-Hour Day,” McNeill was born in 1836 in Amesbury, Massachusetts. Like many young New Englanders of his day, he started working in the apparel factories at a very young age, in his case he was 10 when he started working in 1846. He […]

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Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 153

By Erik Loomis

On October 11, 2017

This is the grave of Millard Fillmore. Please, try not to get too excited by this post. I recognize what hero worship looks like and I know the average LGM reader loves Millard Fillmore for obvious re

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Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 152

By Erik Loomis

On September 30, 2017

This is the grave of Miles Davis. For my money, Miles Davis is the greatest jazz musician of all time. This is hardly a novel assertion. I say this not because of his skill as a trumpter or because of

Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 151

By Erik Loomis

In General

On September 29, 2017

This is the future grave of Ruth Bader Ginsburg. It’s also of course the grave of Martin Ginsburg, her husband and a big-time lawyer himself. But I post this to remind us all how important electing Democrats must remain. Anyone on the left who says that talking about the need to vote for Democrats because […]

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Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 150

By Erik Loomis

On September 28, 2017

This is the grave of Sa-go-ye-wa-tha, or as he was known among whites, Red Jacket. Born in approximately 1750, the future Seneca leader lived in a world of massive and terrible change for his people.

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Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 149

By Erik Loomis

On September 27, 2017

This is the grave of Louis Armstrong. One of the greatest and most important musicians of all time, Armstrong was born in 1901 to a poor family in New Orleans. Like many poor kids, he grew up in a bro

Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 148

By Erik Loomis

In General

On September 20, 2017

This is the grave of William Lloyd Garrison. Born in 1805 in Newburyport, Massachusetts to dirt poor parents. His father, a sailor unemployed due to the Embargo Act of 1807, the single worst foreign policy decision in American history, deserted the family in 1808. Garrison had to work from a young age to help the […]

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Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 147

By Erik Loomis

On September 19, 2017

This is the grave of William Gibbs McAdoo. Born in 1861 in Marietta, Georgia, McAdoo’s family moved to Knoxville, Tennessee in 1877 when his dad became a professor at the University of Tennsseee

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Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 146

By Erik Loomis

On September 18, 2017

This is the grave of Charles Sumner. Born in Boston in 1811, Sumner’s family were strong abolitionists and of course their son picked this up with passion. He graduated from Harvard in 1830 and

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