Who else is spending the day playing around with this interactive map of Shakespeare-era London? More info here.
Author: Erik Loomis
There is evidently no trend in American history historians won't connect to Thomas Jefferson and that includes the recent emphasis on food. This is an interesting piece on the vegetable.
If you ever wanted to read about the discovery of a rather sizable 18th century dildo in Poland, here's your chance.
The Ohio legislative decided to stick a measure in a funding bill that would redefine all faculty as supervisors since they play some role in university governance. This would make them ineligible to have a union. I'm not at all confident that John Kasich won't...
Deadwood is probably my favorite show of all time. That's for many reasons--the story, the amazing acting of Ian McShane and Brad Dourif among many others, the language. But among.
On April 17, 1905, the Supreme Court, led by Chief Justice Melville Fuller, decided the Lochner v. New York case, overturning a New York law limiting the hours bakers could.
So the historian of hermaphroditism and intersex Alice Dreger has a son in East Lansing, Michigan public schools. His class received an abstinence-only school presentation in his sex class. Dreger attended and live tweeted and storified it. It's epic. A couple of highlights. Paper babies...
Above: Boston Red Sox CEO, co-owner of the Pawtucket Red Sox, and extremely poor man Larry Lucchino. The Pawtucket Red Sox (or PawSox as they are known) is Boston's AAA.
The first slave auction in New Amsterdam in 1655, painted by Howard Pyle, 1917 Glad to see New York City finally acknowledging its long history as a slave market. The.
In comments yesterday, heckblazer alerted me to this brilliance of 1865 advertising. That is now one of my favorite advertisements of all time. Can't wait to use it in a class.
It's long been known that better working conditions and higher pay lead to happier and more productive workers. Yet short-sighted greed and corporate resentment over treating workers like human beings.
The wages of the U.S. immigration system: Six months after he was deported back to Mexico from the United States, Constantino Morales was shot and killed Sunday night. Morales, an.