Various links and such from the last few days as I catch up on sleep/the world after my time in Madison. 1. Historians are having a collective orgasm today over the release of the 1940 census, which should greatly expand our knowledge of the country...
Author: Erik Loomis
Forgive the absence, I was at a conference in Madison which was a great time made greater by an unexpected trip up to Stevens Point along the Wisconsin River yesterday..
Lewis L. Gould, eminent historian of the Progressive Era presidency, has a new 73-page biography of Theodore Roosevelt. While one might legitimately ask whether we need another biography of the.
This is very sad. Scruggs was one of the last connections to the first days of bluegrass and one of the most innovative, not only in his style of banjo picking but in his willingness to change with the times.
I love Rand Paul. He's like his father, but with even fewer principles. This Paul speech about oil companies on the Senate floor is classic: Instead of punishing them, you.
As I wrote recent my piece on tipped labor, I did a little historical research on tipping. For the sake of length, I had to cut the history out of.
Sarah Jaffe has an important piece up at Alternet exploring the realities of public sector workers in the Second Gilded Age: Beil told a story of guards at a women's correctional facility, who get sent along with inmates when they have to go to the...
Building off Tim Wise, I have to wonder if the next frontier in racist white backlash against Trayvon Martin will be to accuse him of threatening a white woman, placing.
The 9-pound Gambian rat has invaded the Florida Keys, having been released there by an exotic animal breeder about 10 years ago. They are thriving, one of many species that.
Feral pigs are expanding their range and will probably be across most of North America in the next 20 years. They cause a tremendous amount of damage, not only to farmers but to wildlife and habitat. It seems to me the logical solution is a...
I think I speak for everyone at LGM when I say this about the new season of Mad Men: OMG! OMG! OMG! OMG! OMG! OMG! 3 hours and 18 minutes.
On March 25, 1911, 146 workers at the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory in New York City died when the building in which they worked caught on fire. One of the most.