When the TV show Survivor premiered in the spring of 2000, I was fascinated. Every time those plucky castaways gathered to vote another contestant off the island, my stomach was tied in knots. Would they finally get rid of that...
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24 March 2019
Sunday, March 24, 5-8pm
Urban Arts Space, Lazarus building, 50 W. Town St.
#WomensHistoryMonth is HERE, and...
19 March 2019
The legacy of President Lyndon B. Johnson has been and forever shall be overshadowed by the war in Vietnam. But LBJ’s administration was about more than what he referred to as “that bitch of a war.” In the space of a little more than...
27 February 2019
My students often say to me that they aren’t clear what they should be highlighting when they are reading their texts or primary source documents. I had a similar thought when I was reading A More Beautiful and Terrible History;...
13 February 2019
When President John F. Kennedy was assassinated on November 22, 1963, his brother, Robert Kennedy, the attorney general, lost more than most. For much of his adult life he had sublimated himself to his brother’s wishes. They...
05 February 2019
When beloved Acorn Books on W. 5th Ave. began their three-month long-goodbye going-out-of-business sale a year ago, books were half-price. Nice.
Sad, but nice. I scored a few. Mostly World War II histories.
Then, after a...
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