This is the grave of John Howard Payne. Born in 1791 in New York City, Payne grew up in a well-off family. They had old colonial roots and he mostly grew up in Boston, where his father ran a school. From the time he was...
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This is the grave of Joseph Urban. Born in 1872 in Vienna, Urban grew up wealthy and went into architecture. He studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna,.
This is the grave of Eugene O'Neill. Born into an acting family in New York in 1888, O'Neill was around theater his entire life. In fact, he was born in.
On September 6, 1919, New York theater owners and striking actors sign an agreement to end a bitter and acrimonious strike based around the really horrific working conditions the actors faced, transforming this industry. The late 1910s were a fascinating time for organized labor. World...
Today marks the Immortal Bard William Shakespeare's 454th birthday! The inventor of thousands of new English words, for no reason at all,.
My research has mostly revolved around virtual witnessing, but after attending a recent show at Amnesty International headquarters in London I decided to look into another kind of witnessing. I.
Finally, a well-deserved pushback to the politics of the Hamilton musical is happening. The show does include one named black character, Sally Hemings, who appears in a quick cameo that lands mainly as a dig at Jefferson. (The slaveholdings of the Schuyler family, which Hamilton...
The Jedi Principle runs so: If you need the Jedi in order to make your project work, don't start. The Jedi Principle comes to mind in the context of defenses.
Having grown up and spent most of my formative years on the West Coast, I am constantly befuddled by the aversion of East Coasters to drives of even moderate distance..
It's certainly possible that Neanderthal X died in a violent confrontation with modern humans. However, I think that there's always a danger in reading our own social understandings into a historical record. There are innumerable scenarios under which the Neanderthal in question could have died,...
The national dialogue on race continues inside Mister Leonard Pierce's head.One of these days, someone -- more specifically, someone who is not me -- should compile a list of the.