I'm not a big fan of counterfactual history, but sometimes it has a bit of value as a project to consider how some slight changes here and there might have had a gargantuan impact on world history. Molly Crabapple has a new book out on...
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The big monument there marks the grave of Robert Carter III, but this is as close as I could ge.t Born in 1728 in Corotman, Virginia, Carter grew up in.
This is the grave of Harvey Martin. Born in 1950 in Dallas, Martin was not a football player when he was a kid. In 1967, he transferred for his junior.
This is the unmarked grave of Henry Scott. I don't know a lot about Scott, so this will be a short one. He's almost totally forgotten today. He doesn't even have a Wikipedia page. But he was an important tapdancer in Europe in the 1930s...
This is the grave of Charles Mason. Born in 1728 in Oakridge, Stroud, Gloucestershire, England, Mason got some kind of an education and then ended up working as an astronomer.
This is the grave of Fred Hartley. Born in 1902 in Harrison, New Jersey, this person, responsible for one of the worst laws in American history, didn't grow up super.
On May 8, 1863, the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen was founded at a meeting in Marshall, Michigan. Today, the Engineers are one of the oldest unions in the country. Telling their story gets at many of the limitations of the American labor movement....
Ted Turner is dead. Although not much in the news for the past two decades, Turner played an outsized role in creating twenty-first century America. He wasn’t the worst billionaire.
I assume everyone actually knows the reason--that Trump will destroy them because the Republican voting base still sees him as their godking, but in case you don't know that: President.
This is the grave of Tom Glazer. Born in 1914 in Philadelphia, Glazer grew up in a Russian Jewish household. At least at first. But in fact, he had it really tough. His father died in the flu pandemic in 1918. His mother couldn't raise...
Racism is dead, according to John Roberts. Mississippi Republicans agree. When House members meet this month for a special session to redraw state Supreme Court districts, they will convene in the Old.
This is the grave of Homer Cummings. Born in Chicago in 1870, Cummings was pretty well off, went to some fancy private school in Buffalo, and then it was off.