Many years ago I dated a man who made lists for virtually everything. He even had the five- and ten-year plans all the business books of the era were...
Dr. Marilyn K. Howard earned her PhD in American history from The Ohio State University (Dissertation: Black Lynching in the Promised Land: Mob Violence in Ohio 1876 - 1916). She is an associate professor in the Department of Humanities at Columbus State Community College. She has published essays in a number of anthologies, including the Encyclopedia of Racial Violence in America and the Encyclopedia of Jim Crow. She continues to conduct research on the lynching of black men by white mobs in Ohio.
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03 July 2015
I have been fascinated by Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis since I was a young girl. This fascination at times has spilled over on other...
26 April 2015
As someone who has a master’s degree in political science, I am somewhat embarrassed
to say that my first reaction to the congressional hearings on Watergate...
09 April 2015
It happened on August 29, 1786. Protestors, many of whom were veterans of the Revolutionary War, were angry about the distressed economic...
13 February 2014
When we think of Martin Luther King, Jr., most of us think of King the dreamer, who spoke to the more than 200,000 people amassed in front of the Lincoln...
21 November 2013
I was in the second grade at Highland Avenue Elementary School in Columbus when President Kennedy was assassinated. The principal made the announcement over...