Gilded Age

Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,878

By Erik Loomis

In General

On May 6, 2025

This is the grave of Adlai Stevenson, Sr. Born in 1835 in Christian County, Kentucky, Stevenson grew up in a slaving family that grew tobacco. But Stevenson's father was really quite uncomfortable with the fact that he owned humans, or at least he didn't think...

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Banana Republic Foreign Policy

By Erik Loomis

On February 24, 2025

When I make my points that the Trump administration is trying to recreate the Gilded Age rather than Nazi Germany, one of the areas where this most makes sense is.

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In Opposition to Nazi References, in Favor of Gilded Age References

By Erik Loomis

On February 16, 2025

For a very long time, I have expressed frustration that Americans obsessively focus on World War II and the Nazis and don't pay enough attention to their own horrible histories..

Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,716

By Erik Loomis

In General

On October 1, 2024

This is the grave of Alexander Shepherd. Born in 1835 in Washington, D.C., Shepherd grew up working class, dropped of school at the age of 13, and got a job as a plumber's assistant. He was evidently good at it and worked his way up...

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Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,540

By Erik Loomis

On January 28, 2024

This is the grave of Nelson Aldrich. Born in 1841 in Foster, Rhode Island, Aldrich came from a family with long connections to the New England colonial elite, but which.

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Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,499

By Erik Loomis

On December 6, 2023

This is the grave of Diamond Jim Brady. Born in New York in 1856, James Buchanan Brady grew in an Irish household. James Buchanan is a pretty gross president to.

Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,496

By Erik Loomis

In General

On December 3, 2023

You can't really tell here, but from this angle you can kind of see (or I could when I took the picture, it's the white distant thing between the trees) the tomb of Cornelius Vanderbilt, which is in a private part of this cemetery because...

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Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,307

By Erik Loomis

On March 10, 2023

This is the grave of Stanley Matthews. Born in 1824 in Cincinnati, Matthews' family was evidently pretty well off in Porkopolis. He was able to attend Kenyon College, graduating in.

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The Origins of Columbus Day

By Erik Loomis

On October 11, 2021

Why do we celebrate this genocidal and generally horrible person anyway? Turns out that like everything else in this country, it goes back to the history of American racism and.

On the So-Called Compromise of 1877

By Erik Loomis

In General

On October 9, 2021

For seemingly forever, the end of Reconstruction has been taught as the "Compromise of 1877, where Democrats agreed to give the presidency to Rutherford Hayes in return for the end of Reconstruction." Now this is interesting. It turns out that the whole thing was invented...

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Impeachments of the Past

By Erik Loomis

On February 11, 2021

The great historian Richard White has an really interesting essay on the impeachment of Secretary of War William Belknap in 1876. The House managers, in their final brief of Feb..

General

Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 760

By Erik Loomis

On January 5, 2021

This is the grave of Samuel Pomeroy. Born in 1816 in Southampton, Massachusetts, Pomeroy grew up comfortable and went to Amherst College, graduating in 1838. He taught school in New.

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