This is the grave of Enrico Fermi. Born in 1901 in Rome to a prominent political family, Fermi showed an unusual aptitude for physics from a very young age and went to the University of Pisa where he received an advanced degree at the age...
Author: Erik Loomis
Above: The student body at Carlisle Indian School, 1885, which evidently was not part of the Gilded Age I was pretty excited last night. PBS' American Experience was premiering its.
In one of the comment threads last week, commenters were flipping out because of one weird Monmouth poll that showed a significant improvement in Republican polling numbers. And yes, Republican.
This is the grave of Peggy Pascoe. One of the finest historians of the 1980s and 1990s, Pascoe was a pioneer in women's history and legal history, particularly in the American West. In the 1980s, the field of Western history, by which I mean the...
During my recent trip to Peoria, I drove to buy beer and when I parked in the supermarket lot, saw the sign above. I've seen similar signs from time to.
Conservatives talk all the time about liberal indoctrination in college. This is ridiculous. I can't even get the students to do the reading, not to mention change them to my.
This is the archive of the Erik Visits an American Grave Series 1) Henry Clay Frick, vile steel capitalist 2) Eng and Chang Bunker, famed 19th century conjoined twins 3) James Buchanan , our doughface 15th president 4) William F. Buckley, vomit-inducing conservative 5) Thaddeus...
Pretty moderate! A former leader in the American Nazi Party is about to be the only Republican on the ticket for a congressional race in Illinois. According to the Chicago.
Well, at least a neoliberal didn't win the presidency: Mick Mulvaney, head of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, has pulled back from a full-scale probe of how Equifax Inc failed.
This is the grave of Malcolm X. I hardly need to go over the biography of Malcolm X. Or at least I hope I don't. So here are a few points to spur discussion: 1) Malcolm really had one of the most remarkable journeys of...
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Good times: Polar bears are starving and could face extinction faster than previously thought, according to a new study. Published Thursday in the journal Science, the study was conducted by.