Many want to believe that recent uprisings that began in Tunisia are essentially about human rights. As discord cascaded into Egypt and then to
Category: History
Same old song: American racism, American plutocracy
1. At a town hall meeting on Tuesday, February 22, a supporter of Georgia Republican Paul Broun asked the U.S. representative, “Who’s going to
The Civil War, the NFL, the haves and the have-nots
A recent article in the Washington Post pointed out a “myth” about the Civil War that relates to why middle and low income people
So much to learn from the Challenger disaster
Morton Thiokol was not the name of one of the astronauts aboard the Challenger spacecraft that blew up twenty-five years ago today (January 28,
Can St. Louis get its groove back?
2011 is the 150th anniversary of the start of the Civil War, an era in which St. Louis had grandiose ideas for itself. A
Morris Berman: A Question of Values
A Question of Values is Morris Berman’s seventh book of cultural history and social criticism and his first book of essays, which were written
School deseg: history, politics, impact, future?
Through a great recent post at UrbanSTL that led me to an equally great older article in the Riverfront Times, I discovered a book
Obama’s accomplishments: Lifting the media blackout at Dover
At the outset of the first Gulf War, then-Secretary of Defense Dick Cheney imposed a ban on photographs and broadcast coverage of the arrival
Same-sex marriage: the case for “evolving feelings”
At a press conference shortly after signing the repeal of Don’t Ask Don’t Tell, President Barack Obama was asked about his feelings on gay
1956: A presidential election to remember
The 1952 and 1956 presidential elections between Republican Dwight Eisenhower and Democrat Adlai Stevenson might stand as the last time that the American people had a choice between two capable candidates with clear and reasonable philosophies of government.