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• FAMILY HISTORY: Anniversary- One Hundred Years in America.

  

  Copy of the original ship's manifest. Our family is listed at lines ten through fourteen. From Ancestry.com. I can't let this September go without marking an... Read more

  Posted on 25 September 2012 CULTURE, HISTORY, POLITICS

• GUEST BLOG: Civil War- Antietam 1862 and Its Terrible General, George B....

  

  Oil painting of General George Brinton McClellan, from a photograph by Matthew Brady. With all attention these days on the national political campaign, let's no... Read more

  Posted on 13 September 2012 CULTURE, HISTORY, POLITICS

• Guest Photo: Roger Staubach and J. Edgar Hoover

  

  To celebrate the return of NFL football this week, our friend Sally Mott Freeman has given us this gem of a photo showing none less that Roger Staubach, star... Read more

  Posted on 11 September 2012 CULTURE, HISTORY, POLITICS

• POLITICS: The Five Longest Democratic Conventions.

  

  Delegates gather in Baltimore for the 1912 Democratic Convention. They would nominate Woodrow Wilson for President on the 46th ballot. Read more

  Posted on 04 September 2012 CULTURE, HISTORY, POLITICS

• POLITICS: Is It Time to Scrap the National Political Conventions?

  

  Thanks to our friends at the Huffington Post for first running this piece on August 27, 2012: Washington, DC -- When Republicans and Democrats meet at their... Read more

  Posted on 31 August 2012 CULTURE, HISTORY, POLITICS

• How an Act of Congress Killed the US Gold Market

  

  A view inside the New York Gold Room from Harper's Weekly, October 1869. Thanks to our friends at Bloomberg Echoes for first running this post last week on... Read more

  Posted on 15 August 2012 CULTURE, HISTORY, POLITICS

• Paul Ryan for Vice President -- Three Quick Comparisons

  

  Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan, the 2012 Republican ticket. Photo from CNN. Mitt Romney may get a nice bounce in public opinion polls from announcing 42 year-old... Read more

  Posted on 11 August 2012 CULTURE, HISTORY, POLITICS

• How Negative Can a Campaign Get? Thomas Nast's Attacks on Horace Greeley, 1872

  

  Horace Greeley, pictured by Nast as as an out-of-touch nitwit in oversized coat and hat, oblivious to the sea of dead Union solidiers at notorious... Read more

  Posted on 08 August 2012 CULTURE, HISTORY, POLITICS

• Great Portrait of Abraham Lincoln, 1860

  

  He still looks young and vaguely handsome in this print, published by New York's Currier and Ives in May 1860. With sensitive eyes dominating the placid, sad... Read more

  Posted on 06 August 2012 CULTURE, HISTORY, POLITICS

• Why I Hate This Year's Presidential Campaign !!

  Some of you have noticed that I've written very little -- almost nothing -- in this Blog lately about what usually is my favorite topic: politics. Read more

  Posted on 02 August 2012 POLITICS

• POLITICS: In 1868, a Wild Fraud to Dwarf Today’s Political Sleaze

  

  Photo from Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division.Thanks again to our friends at the Bloomberg "Echoes" financial history blog for running this... Read more

  Posted on 28 June 2012 CULTURE, HISTORY, POLITICS

• NEW SUMMER BOOK: Abraham Lincoln's Convention: Chicago 1860

  

  Scene in the Chicago convention hall at it prepared to nominate Abe Lincoln for president, from Harper's Weekly, May 1860. Every president is shaped by his... Read more

  Posted on 21 June 2012 CULTURE, HISTORY, POLITICS

• BOOKS: Publish Now! -- a June 23 Workshop at The Writers Center

  

  Publish Now: From Manuscript to Book and eBook in the New World of Publishing At this comprehensive day-long seminar, keynote speaker Justin Branch of... Read more

  Posted on 07 June 2012 CULTURE, HISTORY, POLITICS

• BOOKS- The NEW YORK GOLD ROOM: Wall Street's Big Gamble on the Civil War

  

  Scene on the floor of the New York Gold Exchange or "Gold Room," 1869. In all American history since 1789, with its many financial booms and busts, only once ha... Read more

  Posted on 23 May 2012 CULTURE, HISTORY, POLITICS

• MONEY: Boss Tweed's Bondholder Revolt

  

  Cartoon by Thomas Nast depicting the Tweed Ring in Harper's Weekly, Aug. 19, 1871. Source: Library of Congress. A hearty thanks to the Bloomberg "Echoes"... Read more

  Posted on 15 May 2012 CULTURE, HISTORY

• GUEST BLOG: Susan Tejada on Crime Fighting Technology in the Era of Sacco and...

  

  The original electric chair at Sing Sing prison, circa 1905. The story of Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti, two left-leaning Italian immigrants convicted an... Read more

  Posted on 09 May 2012 CULTURE, HISTORY, POLITICS

• GUEST BLOGGER: Edwin Ivanauskas, on Modern Day Prohibition in America, as Applie...

  

  When someone thinks about the term “prohibition,” where first comes to mind usually is the era of illegal alcohol from 1919 to 1933 in the United States.... Read more

  Posted on 04 May 2012 CURRENT, DEBATE, HISTORY, POLITICS

• Nell Minow and Her Exclusive Interview with Senator Adlai E. Stevenson III

  

   Senator Adlai Stevenson III in 1975 (second from right, standing) with bipartisan delegation to Chica including (back row, from right) Ambassador George... Read more

  Posted on 25 April 2012 HISTORY, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• BOOKS: In Search of Sacco and Vanzetti

  

  I recently had the chance to write a cover blurb for the new book In Search of SACCO VANZETTI: Double Lives, Troubled Times, and Massachusetts Murder Case... Read more

  Posted on 03 April 2012 CULTURE, HISTORY, POLITICS

• GUEST BLOGGER: Debbie Weinkamer on Lucretia Garfield, “The Vanishing First...

  

  Former First Lady Lucretia Garfield (seated center) with thirteen of her sixteen grandchildren in Mentor, Ohio, summer 1906. Left to right –Standing (back... Read more

  Posted on 30 March 2012 CULTURE, HISTORY, POLITICS