History

Need a quiet moment? Join me at the national house of prayer.

George and Martha Washington cordially invite you to their humble home. Enjoy some peanut soup, and then George's own porter recipe in the music parlor, whilst we listen to Nelly play a minuet on the harpsichord. Don't tarry!

This one is mostly indoors boys and girls, so don't worry about the sunscreen lotion and come right in!

I'm giving up officially. On politics. Specifically, American politics. I was raised in what my mother regularly called "a Democratic kitchen" in the South, by...

In this interview, Loewen links the Civil War era to the later era known as the Nadir of Race Relations (1890-1940), and further, to the modern day Neo-Confederate movement, which tends to look amazingly like it's twin brother...the Tea Party.

Join me vicariously for another desktop vacation. In this installment I share my photos from around the Chesapeake Bay.

When the only thing that's enough is too much...

So I'm out on my driveway washing my car last weekend, when my neighbor walks by. He is an old Chinese guy in his...

The man on the motorcycle is dead.  He was twenty-two, a motorcycle enthusiast, murdered and from Puerto Rico.  His wish was to be embalmed...

I. History of Nowruz Imagine it’s the fifth century before the Common Era, on a plain bejeweled with a magnificent palace complex and flowing gardens,...