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• Editor’s Chair: The State of the Union

  

  Tracy Wuster, EditorWe here at “Humor in America” have seen some big changes to the state of the web page.  A number of our editors–Sharon McCoy, ABE, Matt... Read more

  Posted on 28 January 2014 HUMOR, SOCIETY

• The Lightning That Was Leroi Jones

  

  On January 9th, 2014 Leroi Jones, aka Amiri Baraka, died at the age of 79. (Like Muhammad Ali, Jones changed his name when he embraced Islam. Read more

  Posted on 23 January 2014 HUMOR, SOCIETY

• Using Political Cartoons in History Instruction

  

  My experience using political cartoons when teaching political or cultural history has been that when I find a drawing that is apropos for college students, it... Read more

  Posted on 20 January 2014 HUMOR, SOCIETY

• Eskimo and Ordnance

  by Richard TalbotThe Eskimo languages, it is said, have dozens of different words for snow and this is very useful to the Eskimo. Read more

  Posted on 16 January 2014 HUMOR, SOCIETY

• Sleep, Oh Glorious Sleep…

  

  Tracy WusterEveryone should have kids. They are the greatest joy in the world. But they are also terrorists. You’ll realize this as soon as they are born and... Read more

  Posted on 14 January 2014 FAMILY, HUMOR

• Dreaming of Walter Mitty Dreaming

  

  If you want to learn about Walter Mitty, first, check the dictionary:“Walter Mitty: an ordinary, timid person who is given to adventurous and self-aggrandizing... Read more

  Posted on 09 January 2014 HUMOR, SOCIETY

• Is America’s Most Realistic Sit-com a Cartoon?

  

  By Ben AndersonI had two weeks off work recently and much to my wife’s chagrin I spent it watching whole seasons of my favourite sitcoms in a single sitting. Read more

  Posted on 06 January 2014 HUMOR, SOCIETY

• Bo Diddley, Santa Claus

  

  Bo Diddley just may be the most original artist in all of rock ‘n’ roll. He took the bravado and first person narrative tradition of the great blues artists he... Read more

  Posted on 19 December 2013 HUMOR, SOCIETY

• Remembering Elinor Morton Wylie

  

  Elinor Morton WylieSeptember 7, 1885 – December 16, 1928Eighty-five years ago today, Elinor Wylie suffered a fatal stroke. She was only forty-three years old. Read more

  Posted on 16 December 2013 HUMOR, SOCIETY

• The Trouble Begins at Nine?: Mark Twain, “A Speech on Women,” and Blackface...

  

  “Trouble,” as I may have said once or twice, was Twain’s trademark.On 11 January 1868, Mark Twain was asked to give a speech (printed in full below) responding... Read more

  Posted on 12 December 2013 HUMOR, SOCIETY

• More Cowbell and Teaching American Humor

  

  I have a fever for exploring the curious life of one of the most bizarre and compelling comic sketches to work itself into the American grain, the collective... Read more

  Posted on 05 December 2013 HUMOR, SOCIETY

• Furries: A Convenient Comedic Fiction

  

  Apparently, someone else had thought of “The Baseball Furries” firstMy bar trivia team changes its name with each new tournament. Read more

  Posted on 02 December 2013 HUMOR, SOCIETY

• Black Friday: Step Right Up

  

  Black Friday. The day, or so goes the popular internet meme, when Americans fight and trample each other in an effort to buy things we don’t really need the... Read more

  Posted on 29 November 2013 HUMOR, SOCIETY

• The Changing Nature of Political Satire

  

  By Larry BushOn the NPR radio show, “Wait, Wait, Don’t Tell Me,” they discussed the origin of the folk rhyme, “Georgie Porgie. Read more

  Posted on 25 November 2013 HUMOR, SOCIETY

• Humorous Poetry in Motion

  

  The approach of the holidays always leaves me feeling conflicted. My light side looks forward to frivolity and fun, while my heavy side laments the state of... Read more

  Posted on 21 November 2013 HUMOR, SOCIETY

• An Interview with Judith Yaross Lee. With an Excerpt from “Twain’s Brand.”

  

  Tracy WusterWe are very excited to present this interview with Judith Yaross Lee. Judith is Professor Director of Honors Tutorial Studies in the School of... Read more

  Posted on 18 November 2013 HUMOR, SOCIETY

• Teaching with Humor

  Around this time of year, I can always feel the tension whenever I walk into the building.  Everyone I greet has puffy eyes, the bags under them extending all... Read more

  Posted on 14 November 2013 HUMOR, SOCIETY

• American Military Humor: A Celebration for Veteran’s Day

  

  If the United States is the funniest nation in the world (it is), and if it boasts the strongest military in the world (it does), then it would follow that humo... Read more

  Posted on 12 November 2013 SOCIETY

• Seven Graveyard Smashes

  

  ::Happy Halloween! Originally posted on Humor in America: As Halloween approaches once again, it’s time to revisit a near-extinct art – the holiday novelty song... Read more

  Posted on 31 October 2013 HUMOR, SOCIETY

• The Dagwood Sandwich and Humor Theory

  

  In an article that I wrote for the Mensa Bulletin back in 2006, I described a class of words and terms that have entered the English lexicon from cartoons that ... Read more

  Posted on 28 October 2013 HUMOR, SOCIETY