On June 22, 1916, cops shot a Croatian miner named John Alar who was part of the Industrial Workers of the World-led strike in the Mesabi Range of Minnesota. This.
One of my biggest pet peeves as a historian is when news organizations take something historians have known basically forever and call it a breaking story. This happens a couple.
As Michelle Goldberg reminds us, when Trumpers say things, we should believe them. In this case, they are going to bring back the Comstock Act. But with Roe overturned, some.
With Willie Mays now passed, who is the greatest living baseball player? I will provide two lists to help us here. The first is from Joe Posnanski's The Baseball 100,.
Republicans just openly embracing the Confederacy as the only history that really matters to them is....completely unsurprising. The House voted Thursday on a Republican amendment to restore Arlington National Cemetery’s Confederate.
This is the grave of Angelina Grimké. Born in 1805 in Charleston, South Carolina, Grimké grew up in the planter elite of that state. Her parents were super big time.
This is the grave of Walter Matthau. Born in 1920, Walter Matthow (don't know why you'd change your name a bit from that), grew up in the Jewish immigrant community.
This is the grave of Jacob Lawrence. Born in Atlantic City in 1917, Lawrence grew up poor. His parents had moved north during the early years of the Great Migration..
