Jesus Boots
“Do not think that I have come to bring peace to the earth. I have not come to bring peace, but a sword.” – Matthew...
Judge Peter
I met Judge Peter Ney late in his life; shortly after he had completed his autobiography: Getting Here: From a Seat on a Train to...
Flying Fish 911
The Anthropocene Epoch is an unofficial unit of geologic time, used to describe the most recent period in Earth’s history when human activity started to...
Connecting the Dots
The best history is intimately connected to our own lives and serves in our quest to understand the world we live in. Throughline, a weekly...
The Agora
My mother is a clinical psychologist who began her academic work a bit later in life than is typical; which is to say, I was...
MCMLXXIV
In August 1974, when I was 14 years-old, Richard Nixon resigned as president of the United States under a cloud of lies and malfeasance. The...
Some Friends of Mine
As an introverted and not-yet-so-famous historian, it amazes me that I have been able to develop surprisingly intimate friendships with Absaroka County, Wyoming Sheriff Walt...
1942
“In a 2018 poll, over 60 percent of respondents in a citizenship survey could not identify the nations that the US fought in World War...
Caravan
In Central America’s Forgotten History: Revolution, Violence. And the Roots of Migration (2021), Latin America historian Aviva Chomsky makes the clear case that immigration problems...
Bob Lee
In Robert E. Lee and Me: A Southerner’s Reckoning with the Myth of the Lost Cause, historian Ty Seidule knocks Confederate General Robert E. Lee...
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