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November 16, 2015 (November 16, 2015)

Godwin’s forefathers

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The uber-digital generation may think that Internet traditions began with them, or at least no further back than their parents. For example, anyone spending time on political blogs or in […]

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November 5, 2015 (November 5, 2015)

Throwbacklist Thursday

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It is National Peanut Butter Month. Who knows why. Probably Skippy and Jif paid for the next twenty years of November. Anyway, we’ll play along. Let’s salute the pioneers who […]

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November 4, 2015 (November 2, 2015)

“Everybody likes stories”

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Daisy Turner, the shotgun-wielding centenarian, was someone Jane Beck was anxious to meet. Beck, the Executive Director Emeritus and Founder of the Vermont Folklife Center, recounted her first encounter with Daisy […]

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October 19, 2015 (October 5, 2015)

Winning the War for Democracy wins Missouri book award

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Winning the War for Democracy: The March on Washington Movement, 1941-1946 by David Lucander has won the 2015 Missouri History Book Award, given by the State Historical Society of Missouri. […]

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October 15, 2015 (October 15, 2015)

Throwbacklist Thursday

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Academic publishing often forces one into the unappreciated but necessary job of Killjoy. It comes with the territory of challenging convention and shoveling the cultural/historical b.s. out of the barn. Having […]

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September 25, 2015 (September 25, 2015)

The Boy Who Was Traded for a Horse

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Black media pioneer Richard Durham was never an on-air star or featured player. Yet the poet, activist and script writer had a huge influence on how African Americans could be […]

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September 18, 2015 (September 16, 2015)

The King of the Cannibal Islands

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Pirates. They have a bad reputation. The robbing. The kidnapping. The walking of planks. But how about the positive things pirates have done? The contributions to fashion. The government-sanctioned predatory […]

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September 17, 2015 (September 17, 2015)

Throwbacklist Thursday

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George Hamilton IV departed the world two years ago today. Unrelated to the actor and tanning phenomenon of the same name, IV, as he was sometimes called, ambled out of […]

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September 13, 2015 (January 16, 2015)

1812 and all that

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When you get down to it, a lot of wars deserve the moniker “the forgotten war.” Of late, and in the U.S., it most often shows up in association with […]

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September 11, 2015 (September 11, 2015)

From Cincinnati to Grizzly Flats

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Today marks an auspicious day in music history: the first recorded performance of Stephen Foster’s “Oh! Susannah,” the earliest hit song in U.S. history. Foster’s smash debuted in a Pittsburgh saloon. […]

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August 25, 2015 (August 25, 2015)

Brotherhood

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This day in 1925, activist A. Philip Randolph led the organization of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, a campaign Randolph declared nothing less than “a significant landmark in the […]

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August 19, 2015 (August 19, 2015)

The world’s a nicer place

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In the 1800s, crowds flocked to watch balloon ascensions for many of the same reasons they go to stock car races. You got to see an odd vehicle do amazing […]

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