Happy to announce that I will be speaking about A History of America in Ten Strikes in Providence this Tuesday at 5. The details are in the image above. I do have a couple of future talks coming up as well. Looks pretty solid that...
Author: Erik Loomis
This is the grave of Daniel Burnham. Born in 1846 in Henderson, New York to a Swedenborgian family, as a young man he failed to get into either Harvard or.
Underneath this fallen tree is the grave of Jonas Salk. Born in 1914 in New York City to Jewish parents, Salk at first lived a pretty normal life for that.
This is the grave of James Roosevelt and Sara Delano Roosevelt. The parents of FDR, James and Sara Roosevelt were landed elite in Hyde Park, New York, part of the Dutch class of old money that still played a major role in the region. James...
It's time for the annual truth-telling session of Thanksgiving food: It is largely bad. 1) Turkey is an atrocity. I love how every November we see a zillion articles that.
On November 21, 1927, Colorado state police massacred six striking coal miners at the Columbine Mine in Serene, in what was just one of so many instances in American history.
This is the grave of Samuel Flagg Bemis. Born in 1891 in Worcester, Massachusetts, Bemis graduated from Clark University in 1912 and then got a Ph.D. in History from Harvard in 1916. He went west and taught at Colorado College in Colorado Springs and then...
This is the grave of Henry James. Born in 1843 to old New York money, Henry grew up in luxury. He and his family, which of course included his brother,.
Your Republican Party: A white county commissioner in northeast Kansas who told a black city planner that he belongs to “the master race” as he rejected her proposed development plan.
We've known for a long time how hopeless corrupt and awful the prison system is. Now that prisons can make money on American ethnic cleansing, well, you know where this is going: A regional jail in The Dalles, Oregon, that houses detainees for U.S. Immigration...
In 1969, the Cuyahoga River in Cleveland caught on fire. This was hardly the first time. It had happened several times actually. In fact, it was so not notable that.
This is the grave of Ted Kennedy. It's hardly necessary here to provide the details of Ted Kennedy's life. After all, he was a seminal figure of American politics for.