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I’ve been thinking a lot about the Coit Tower images that I saw last weekend. I was going to write a post about movies that best show the Depression era, but just saw these color photographs of workers and families in the 30’s and wanted to share them. They are part of a larger collection at the . . . → Read More: Images of workers Last weekend, Geoff and I went to San Francisco to see Coit Tower, which is perched on Telegraph Hill. I first saw Coit Tower in the late ’80’s and was blown away by the murals created in the mid-30’s by a group of artists employed by the Federal Government, under a scheme to employ artists during . . . → Read More: Workers, Unite! – Coit Tower I just read The King’s Mistress by Emma Campion. The book jacket claims that she is the world’s foremost scholar on Alice Perrers, the mistress of Edward III mentioned in the title. I’m not quite sure how many scholars of Alice Perrer there are, that she can make the claim. Here’s a review that was posted for . . . → Read More: Never Mind – bad historical fiction I’ve received several reminders that today is World Sjögren’s Day. I can’t say I can really celebrate a day that is about a disease, but I will use it as a chance to do what I love to do, which is look at the history of Sjogren’s (said “show-grins”). Sjogren’s is an autoimmune disease, in which . . . → Read More: “Celebrating” World Sjogren’s Day So it seems that a mystery that has intrigued me since I was a child will remain unsolved. As I’ve mentioned from time to time, I have always loved history. I don’t know when that love started, but I do know that by the time I was 11, it was well developed. When I was a . . . → Read More: The Mystery of the Swordsman Just finished FDR’s Shadow: Louis Howe, The Force That Shaped Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt. People enjoy reading about Franklin and Eleanor not only because of their important impact on America, but because of the sometimes mysterious and confusing nature of their relationships with . . . → Read More: FDR’s Shadow A bogus comparison… You’ve probably never heard of Rebecca Nurse, but bear with me for a moment. Nurse . . . → Read More: Fred Thompson and the Salem Witch trials In his “Political Observations,” written years before he served as fourth president of the United States, Madison went on to underscore the dangers of an imperial presidency bloated by war fever. “In war,” Madison wrote in 1795, at a time when the young republic still faced its share of dangerous enemies, “the discretionary power of . . . → Read More: Madison and The Imperial Presidency I like to think I know European history pretty well, but I’ve had some humbling experiences lately. My teen daughter is studying for her AP European History test, and has been using us to help her fill in blank areas, or verify her understanding. Makes you realize the sheer volume of possible knowledge. Let’s try it. Partition . . . → Read More: The humbling nature of tests When you read a lot of biographies for a single time period, you often find yourself search for a nugget of new information or insight in a sea of familiar stories. |
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