This is the grave of Barbara Jordan. Born in 1936 in Houston, Jordan’s father was a Baptist minister and her mother a teacher in the church. A gifted student, she graduated from Phyllis Wheatley
This is hardly the first time the United States has put people in concentration camps, but it’s no better now than in the past. If you were paying close attention last week, you might have spott
One of the most annoying things about being a historian that every random person on the street thinks they know more than you do about it. It really does drive me nuts. Luckily, I am very, very good a
Look, I don’t have a lot of pretense that I am changing the world too much with my writing, largely because a few online articles and writing for a blog–and we all know how important blogs
This is the grave of Vic Willis. Born in 1922 in Oklahoma, Vic Willis was part of the Willis Brothers, a country music act that developed in the Sooner State in the late 1930s. They moved to Kansas Ci
I thought this was one of the finest op-eds I have ever read. Today, a quarter of a billion people are migrants. They are moving because the rich countries have stolen the future of the poor countries
This is the grave of Ralph Yarborough. Born in 1903 in Chandler, Texas, Yarborough received an appointment to West Point, but dropped out, deciding to go into teaching instead. He transferred to Sam H
This post will contain plenty of spoilers from the Deadwood movie, so I don’t want to hear any complaints from you hoopleheads. Like many of you, I waited with great anticipation for the Deadwoo