Oh dear. From the golden age of American advertising, for a laxative. Via Sociological Images. Full narration of the text at their site.
Author: Erik Loomis
In a response to the growth of ethnically-oriented museums on the National Mall, Rep. James Moran (D-VA) supports the creation of a museum dedicated to the American melting pot as.
NPR had a fantastic story on Friday about the relationship between fracking and the cluster of earthquakes earlier this year in Arkansas. Many local residents blamed the gas companies for.
Virginia's most powerful politicians not surprisingly come from the early years of the republic. I was somewhat struck at how hackish their politicians were in the late 19th and much of the 20th century. Also, although Woodrow Wilson was from Virginia, his political life was...
Alyssa Rosenberg (whose work I think is fantastic) poses a great question: ...it struck me all over again how few movies we have about the Revolutionary War. I’d looked into.
This occasional series will highlight moments in American labor and working-class history writ large, including the history of American radicalism and the history of slavery, which too often takes a.
New Hampshire's list is very weak. Basically, it's suffered from being a very small state bordering the state with probably the most prestigious list, Massachusetts. If you created a list of political figures born in New Hampshire, it would be a lot more impressive. New...
Global Post manages to interview a member of Assad's army. Fascinating, disturbing, very very interesting. Perhaps most interesting to me was the breakdown of how hierarchy operates in the Syrian.
This week, I'd like to highlight a recent discovery, Native American Netroots. This superb blog mostly consists of lengthy posts on Native American history which are well-written and enjoyable to.
While one can argue that there are several good songs about July 4, there's no question that Dave Alvin's "Fourth of July" is the clear best. And by no question, I mean that anyone questioning this is going to get on my fightin' side.
Edward Copeland with an absolutely fantastic discussion of Hitchcock's superb Strangers on a Train, especially Robert Walker's titanic work as the uber-creepy Bruno. Copeland concludes: Finally, there's the climax on.
In a post where there's only a 99% chance he borrowed the link from me without giving credit, Yglesias comments on the same Guardian post on indigenous education in Oaxaca.