Gilded Age
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.
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..
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.
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.
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.
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.
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..
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.