This is the grave of Jackie Robinson. There isn't much point of doing a biography of Robinson here. He's so famous and his story is so well-known that I'd just be wasting my time. But a couple of points: If anything, I feel Robinson is...
Author: Erik Loomis
The University of Akron's nickname is the Zips. And "zip" describes the quality of education at the school under its administration's grand new "ideas." The University of Akron will phase.
We need some more discussion of Aretha. Here's a bunch of remembrances. All Songs Considered. Turns out she liked playing a little golf. Her episode of Murphy Brown. Christgau. Finally,.
This the grave of John O'Hara. Born in 1905 in Pottsville, Pennsylvania to a well-off Irish-American family, O'Hara was a bit of an outsider in the elite circles his family allowed him to move in, due to being an Irish-Catholic in a very WASPy time....
This is the grave of John Hancock. Born in 1737 in Braintree, Massachusetts to a prosperous and slave owning family, Hancock's father died when he was 7, but he went.
Elizabeth Warren's relatively minor proposal to change up corporate governance is leading to the kind of restrained, reasonable discourse we have come to expect from our respectable conservative intellectuals such.
The Queen of Soul has died at the age of 76. Despite having a very large music library, I am not much of a completist and so I have huge gaps, even of bands that I like. For instance, just yesterday, despite a lifetime of...
This is the grave of Stefan Osusky. Born in 1889 in the Austro-Hungarian Empire in what is today Slovakia, Osusky became a Slovak patriot from a young age and was.
These vile scumbag assholes: U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services Director L. Francis Cissna on Wednesday defended his rewriting of the government agency’s mission statement earlier this year as a change.
For all the talk about the rise of socialism, both as a term of endearment among the young, DSA, and now winning politicians such as Ocasio-Cortez, what is striking for a lot of historians on the left is the moderation of all the political ideas...
This is the grave of Edwin Drake. Born in 1819 in Greenville, New York, Drake grew up on farms in New York and Vermont. He wasn't too interested in doing.
While food issues as political activism get nowhere the attention among liberals that it did a decade ago (remember the Michael Pollan for Obama's Secretary of Agriculture boomlet in late.