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• GUEST BLOG: WOUNDED KNEE EPILOG- Karla Fetrow on the Incarceration of Leonard...

  

  Leonard Peltier. A big thank you to our friends at online magazine SUBVERSIFY: An alternative subversive perspective to Mainstream Media, which ran this piece... Read more

  Posted on 07 July 2011 CULTURE, HISTORY, POLITICS

• WOUNDED KNEE: A Few Afterthoughts

  

  Three survivors of the 1890 Wounded Knee massacre, identified (left to right) as brothers White Lance, Joseph Horn Cloud, and Dewey Beard (Iron Tail). Since... Read more

  Posted on 06 July 2011 CULTURE, HISTORY, POLITICS

• For FORTH OF JULY: The Declaration of Independence

  Fireworks, watermelon, hot dogs and beer may do it for everyone else, but no self-respecting history fanatic can survive the 4th of July without a good... Read more

  Posted on 04 July 2011 CULTURE, HISTORY, POLITICS

• BOOKS: Clarence Darrow Twice.

  

  Clarence Darrow in his natural habitat, a packed courtroom weighing life or death for two unpopular defendants, in this case Leopold and Loeb in 1924 Chicago I... Read more

  Posted on 30 June 2011 BOOKS, CULTURE

• GUEST BLOGGER: Ken Briers on His 1952 Ford Customline Tudor Sedan, Still Running.

  

  Our 1952 Ford Customline Tudor sedan. (Click on image for full size.)This is a very special car. Not many were sold and few survive. But what really makes it... Read more

  Posted on 27 June 2011 HISTORY

• FAMILY HISTORY- GUEST BLOGGER: Wendy Griswold on Searching for Deported Uncle...

  

  Photo of Wendy's grandparents, Sarah Pfeiffer and Morris (Moshe) Blitz, with their oldest daughter Fanny, taken in New York City, circa 1903. Of her uncle... Read more

  Posted on 23 June 2011 CULTURE, HISTORY

• WOUNDED KNEE: 1890, a Take from Johnny Cash.

  Before leaving Wounded Knee, here's one more take on the 1890 story -- from country singer Johnny Cash. He recorded this song during a visit to South Dakota... Read more

  Posted on 21 June 2011 MUSIC

• GUEST BLOGER: Marshall Matz on Indian Uprising at Wounded Knee, 1973.

  

  Armed members of the American Indian Movement during 1973 siege at Wounded Knee, South Dakota. Note the American flag hung upside down (distress signal), a... Read more

  Posted on 17 June 2011 CULTURE, HISTORY, POLITICS

• WOUNDED KNEE: Part 2, 1890 -- The Massacre.

  

  Photo taken shortly after the massacre/battle, showing defeated Sioux chiefs guarded by a cavalry soldier.[For WOUNDED KNEE, Part I, The Closing Frontier,... Read more

  Posted on 14 June 2011 CULTURE, HISTORY

• WOUNDED KNEE, Part I: The Closing Frontier.

  

  Lakota Lake, Black Hills, South Dakota.Wounded Knee is a stark, remote place in western South Dakota with freezing winters, blazing hot summers, and hard,... Read more

  Posted on 06 June 2011 CULTURE, HISTORY

• WOUNDED KNEE: Sacred Ground for American Sioux Indians. Our June Feature.

  

  Red Cloud (on right with feather head-dress), chief of the Oglala Lakota Sioux, who defeated the US Cavalry in several encounters 1866-1868 (Red Cloud's War)... Read more

  Posted on 03 June 2011 CULTURE, HISTORY

• Snowball Fight, 1895.

  I love this old original footage of some kids having a snowball fight in France in 1895. It was shot by the Lumiere Brothers, Auguste and Louis, probably near... Read more

  Posted on 23 May 2011 CULTURE, HISTORY, POLITICS

• FAMILY Jewish Immigrants. New York City, 1890.

  

  New York's lower East Side, Hester Street at corner with Clinton, circa 1890. Photo by Edwund Gillon, Jr. Click on image for full size. Read more

  Posted on 20 May 2011 CULTURE, HISTORY

• The Haymarket Riot, Chicago 1886

  

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  Posted on 16 May 2011 CULTURE, HISTORY

• FAMILY HISTORY: Reminder of a Love Story.

  

  My sister Phyllis found them about six months ago -- two creased, crumbling yellowed pages covered with smeared ink handwriting. Each page had what looked... Read more

  Posted on 12 May 2011 CULTURE, HISTORY, POLITICS

• REALITY CHECK: The Killing of Osama Bin Laden.

  

  All this cheering for an execution -- even one so well deserved as that of Osama bin Laden, the mass murderer behind the September 11, 2001, attacks on our... Read more

  Posted on 05 May 2011 HISTORY, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• The Hunt Brothers -- Actually Heroes of the 1980 Silver Drama?

  Last week, I wrote about the Hunt Brothers, Bunker and Herbert, and their 1980 corner of the silver market. (Click here for original article. Read more

  Posted on 02 May 2011 CULTURE, HISTORY

• For May Day -- I Give You Big Bill Haywood

  

  Bill Haywood (in Derby hat) leading strikers in Lowell, Massachusetts, 1912. Happy May Day, Comrades. Remember back when Red States had nothing do to with... Read more

  Posted on 01 May 2011 CULTURE, HISTORY, POLITICS

• BIRTHERS, Part II: The Grover Cleveland Bastards.

  

   Cartoon mocking Grover Cleveland over the paternity scandal. I cannot leave the subject of birthers without a quick visit to what I consider the stranges... Read more

  Posted on 29 April 2011 CULTURE, HISTORY, POLITICS

• BIRTHERS: Some Creepy History, Part I.

  

  President Warren G. Harding in 1920. Does he look African-American to you? How strangely pathetic it's been this week to watch the Birthers, that... Read more

  Posted on 28 April 2011 CULTURE, HISTORY, POLITICS