An amazing set of daguerreotypes and other early photographic images of the last American Revolution veterans.
Author: Erik Loomis
The Wall Street Journal, openly pining for Augusto Pinochet: Mr. Obama also requested a review of U.S. aid to Egypt, but cutting that off now would be a mistake. Unpopular.
This one goes out to all of you who say that MOOCs are totally the equal of a real lecture class in terms of education quality: Michigan professor Gautam Kaul.
I'm in Oaxaca, Mexico for the month so I shouldn't care about the crazy weather in the United States so far this summer (the high today here was 75). But I can't help it. The weather is so insane in the U.S. Again. Climate change:...
Typical that a song as bad as the Star-Spangled Banner would have a neo-Confederate history. The section that favored the “Banner” was the South. By the 1920s when the newly.
Although I was under the impression that Pennsylvania had the stupidest liquor laws in the country, it turns out that Indiana is pretty competitive as well (although at least you.
Last month, I attended a session dedicated to the Chicago Teachers Union struggle at the Labor and Working Class History Association conference in New York. A couple of members of the New York teachers union were on the panel, talking of the struggle to retake...
And by this travesty I mean the threat of Steven Spielberg directing a remake of The Grapes of Wrath, a movie I would like to think exactly 0 people would.
In this day of modern technology, you can follow the Battle of Gettysburg minute by minute 150 years later. You can follow the War of 1812 200 years later. And.
Teach for America gets played at this great progressive thing. You, young bright-eyed college graduate, can go and change the world through your willpower and optimism. It taps into deeply seated notions among 21st century young people about the ability of the empowered individualism to...
North Carolina's zoom to the top of the nation's craziest state governments continues unabated, as the state Senate tacked on extreme anti-abortion restrictions to its very important law banning Sharia.
Updating the story from last week on bumblebees dying by the thousands from insecticide exposure in Oregon, the state has issued a 6 month moratorium on using neonicotinoid-based insecticides. The.