This week, Méliès Monday brings you 1908's The Grandmother's Story.
The New York Times article (PDF) on Solomon Northup and his book, 12 Years a Slave, from January 20, 1853.
I suppose it's fine to try and carve out positions that explicitly appeal to white male voters, but not if it means watering down the core values of the Democratic.
This post is a special request from Anna in PDX to help her work out some thorny issues she faces in her local. If this series can be of use.
Night and Fog has a claim as the best documentary of all time.
There are a lot of bad Best Picture winners. And I really dislike Slumdog Millionaire, although the other Best Picture nominees that year are no great shakes. I'd like to.
The thing about being a historian is that you think you know a lot about the past and then you read the obituary of a truly amazing fighter for social.
This Tennessee politician who wants to ban union picketing as a "preemptive measure" against the growth of organized labor in his state will probably be representing mainstream Republican doctrine by.
