Now this is fascinating. What's particularly interesting is that the decline of pumpkin beer in the early 19th century was not about temperance, but about a modernizing nation turning its back on traditional food as rustic and uncouth. This is interesting given today's fretting among...
Author: Erik Loomis
I would be remiss to not mention the death of the great African environmentalist, feminist, and activst Wangari Maathai. The Kenyan activist began her activist career by figuring out that.
Atrios points us to this piece on supermarkets pulling back from the self-checkout stands. I am very glad to see this. As Atrios points out, these things are nothing more.
While I often like Mark Bittman, like a lot of the recent generation of food writers (and, all too often, environmental writers more broadly), he talks down to the poor. As someone who doesn't work two jobs, who doesn't have to search under the couch...
Joel Garreau is one of the most important popular writers about urbanism over the past two decades. His influential book, Edge City: Life on the New Frontier, described the development.
I don't often talk about individual historians because most of you won't care, but it's worth noting the death of Oscar Handlin, a historian who did more than anyone to.
We don't often think of professors as the most proletarianized of workforces; professors don't usually think of themselves this way. But professors have been on the defensive against college and university administration for years and it is getting worse and the anti-union fanatics grow stronger....
Kentucky has a very impressive set of politicians for its size. Like most southern states, it's probably overperformed over the years, particularly as compared to many northern states. 1. Henry.
There's a fascinating article up at History News Network calling for us to rethink our traditional narrative of party shifts in the mid-twentieth century, arguing that it was not the.
This article on bottlenose attacking and killing porpoises in really brutal ways is weird enough. But it also turns out that dolphins' "crimes" against porpoises are kind of sexual in nature. The killings coincide with the expansion of dolphin territory, but Cotter and Jefferson believe...
Very interesting stuff, suggesting our standard estimates of death during the Civil War are significantly underestimated.
A couple additional points to my post of Sunday. 1. My original thoughts on the decline of modern songwriting and its rootlessness in regards to place came after reading this.