That was the mantra of the environmental movement in the 1970s and 1980s when we as a nation learned not to litter and that we shouldn't throw everything away. Of course, we still aren't very good at it (and see Coca-Cola vetoing the National Park...
Author: Erik Loomis
Count me as one who is quite glad that William Tecumseh Sherman sufficiently recovered from his severe depression to burn Georgia and South Carolina.
I spend a lot of time around college students. As do all the writers of this blog and an impressive chunk of the readership. I feel like I know the.
On this date in 1935, the Committee for Industrial Organization (later the Congress of Industrial Organizations) was created. Ever since the failure of the Knights of Labor to organize all workers behind the 8 hour day in 1886, the American labor movement was primarily dominated...
Scott has already talked about some of the great stuff that happened last night. I want to build on that a bit here. Scott discussed the failure of the Mississippi.
Tony Horwitz, author of Confederates in the Attic, not only one of my favorite books about the Civil War, but one of my favorite non-fiction books ever, has recently published.
There seems to be a new book out about how to succeed as a political blogger. Kevin Drum provides somewhat less than insightful guidance: You have to enjoy writing. You really have to enjoy sitting down at a keyboard and typing words. If you don't,...
1. Tomorrow Ohio voters go to the polls to decide on the fate of SB-5, the anti-union bill pushed through the Ohio legislature by John Kasich and his Tea=Partying friends..
Although I don't identify as a historian of technology per se, I have presented at the Society for the History of Technology before. And the technologies I deal with in.
Environmental groups are going to an old playbook in order to stop the Keystone XL pipeline: find an endangered species and sue the government to stop development. The classic example of this was environmentalists using the northern spotted owl to halt old-growth logging on federal...
Noted prognosticator Bill Kristol, a man who has never, ever been wrong, says that no one in the current Republican field can beat Obama. I think it's time to start.
On November 5, 1916, a boat loaded with members of the Industrial Workers of the World attempted to dock in Everett, Washington. Local leaders, determined to stop the I.W.W. from.