I am, of course, obsessed with issues of exploitation of labor and nature in our supply chains. After all, I am the extremely rare academic to be in the middle of turning my dissertation into a book on a tenure clock timeframe and decide I...
Author: Erik Loomis
This is the grave of Lawrence La Monte. Information on La Monte is not that easy to find. He is known for one thing--he was a member of the American.
The grave series will probably always skew to people of longer ago because half of modern people get cremated instead of buried. Sometimes, they are they placed in a cemetery,.
Good essay from historian Daina Ramey Berry on the horrible 19th century trade in human bodies you don't know about: the cadaver trade. There was plenty of weird cadaver trading of white bodies and a burgeoning trade in bodies from various parts of the globe,...
Half of the workforce of the artisanal mining sector is comprised of children. Without viable economic alternatives, most children must join their parents in rudimentary mining.
This is the grave of Henry Teller. A surprisingly decent man for a Gilded Age senator, Teller was born in 1830 near Granger, New York. He became a lawyer in.
This is a largely self-serving post, but it's Friday night and I could use the help of people smarter than me. I am not a particularly technology-oriented guy. I am about 3 years too old for computers to be intuitive for me and so it's...
When the Democrats took the deal on CHIP to end the shutdown almost immediately, I said it was a good deal and might be smart politics. Theoretically, I still agree.
Last week, I gave a talk at Bradley University in Peoria based around Out of Sight, but updated to discuss post-election issues. Basically, I outline the basic issue of how.
This is the grave of the great Paul Robeson. Born in 1898 in Princeton, New Jersey to a father who was an emancipated slave and a mother who came from a prominent Quaker family, Robeson had a tough childhood. His father became a Presbyterian minister...
I know that my logging book is not designed to be a best-seller, although I did write it as a readable history. The price doesn't help. It won't literally cost.
As a casual student of American food faddism, something that is still more than alive and well today (Yes, it's an amazing coincidence that a sizable percentage of the educated.