Time for the next installment in the internet's least important historical series. This is the grave of Samuel Gompers. Gompers, an English immigrant from a Jewish background, immigrated to the United States in 1863. He became involved in...
graves
This is the grave of Henry George. Henry George was the man behind the idea of the single tax. This was his solution to the inequality dominating the United States.
Underneath this rock is buried Jacob Riis. A Danish immigrant, Riis became one of the leading muckrakers of the Progressive Era, exposing the terrible conditions of immigrants and the urban.
Now this is a grave you can set your watch to. That's right, this is the grave of Johnny Unitas, 9th round pick out of Louisville, Baltimore Colts legend, 10 time Pro Bowl selection, 3 time NFL MVP, 5 time first team All-Pro, and 1979...
This is the grave of Philip Murray, former CIO president and of the United Steelworkers of America. Born in Blantyre, Scotland in 1892. His father was a miner and union.
This is the grave of Gifford Pinchot. Like most Progressives, Gifford Pinchot's legacy is deeply complicated. The nation's first major forester, a process begun with his father felt terrible for.
This is the grave of John Mitchell, president of the United Mine Workers of America from 1898-1908. Born in 1870 in Braidswood, Illinois, Mitchell grew up poor. He became an orphan at the age of 6 and started working as a child shortly after in...
Below is the grave of one of the great American heroes, Thaddeus Stevens. Stevens hardly needs to be explained to most LGM readers, but briefly, a Whig lawyer who took.
I was driving through northwestern Connecticut yesterday. It was utterly lovely, with the leaves changing. An ideal bucolic American landscape. Among the nice places I drove through was the town.
This is the grave of James Buchanan. Buchanan was arguably the worst president in American history. A follower of Andrew Jackson, with all the commitment to white supremacy that entailed, Buchanan was president from 1857-1861, where he was a doughface's doughface, running the nation to...
In my seemingly constant travel (thanks to academic stuff and a wife working in a different state, not because I am actually traveling for fun, mostly) around this great land,.
I find cemeteries pretty fascinating places for a number of reasons. First, I have a bit of a weird hobby of visiting the graves of random famous people from American.