Before Loving v. Virginia, another interracial couple fought in court for their marriage - The Washington Post

Before Loving v. Virginia, another interracial couple fought in court for their marriage - The Washington Post:



Eighty-four years before Richard Loving and Mildred Jeter traveled from their home in Virginia to wed in Washington, there was another interracial couple who made the same trip for the sake of love.



On Nov. 4, 1874, the day interracial marriages became legal in the nation’s capital, Andrew Kinney, a black man, and Mahala Miller, a white woman, left their home in Augusta County, Va., where they lived with their two sons, traveled to the District and married.

Klallam dictionary opens window into tribal heritage | The Seattle Times

Klallam dictionary opens window into tribal heritage | The Seattle Times:



It weighs in at nearly six pounds, fills more than 1,000 pages, and represents the work of many hands and hearts.



The Klallam people’s first dictionary for what was always an unwritten language was built syllable-by-syllable, from tapes and spoken words transcribed into a phonetic alphabet.

On this spot: Two history buffs debunk the story of a famous Civil War photo - The Washington Post

On this spot: Two history buffs debunk the story of a famous Civil War photo - The Washington Post:



A few years ago, Paul Bolcik and Erik Davis stood on East Patrick Street in Frederick, Md., looking at a Civil War historical marker. On the plaque was one of the most famous images from that conflict: the only known candid photograph of Confederate soldiers on the march.



Reproduced in countless books, it shows nearly 100 men, most with rifles resting on their right shoulders, a few looking toward the camera, their faces inscrutable.



And to think it was taken on that very street in 1862!



Except, it wasn’t.

The Deadly Incel Movement’s Absurd Pop Culture Roots

The Deadly Incel Movement’s Absurd Pop Culture Roots:



“Is it unpredictable that someone who buys into this kind of thinking — about how women owe men sex, about how women are worthless except for their ability to provide sex, about how force and cruelty can get you sex because women are ‘depraved’…actually just killed people?” I wrote in a 2009 blog post responding to the Sodini shooting. “No. No, it’s not.”



This is to say nothing of the role that toxic masculinity plays in mass violence generally — the history of domestic violence that is common among mass shooters, or the countless shootings that begin as crimes of domestic violence. If we’ve failed to take incels’ violence seriously, that is in part because we’ve failed to recognize this broader connection between misogyny and mass killing.

What's Fair In Love And War

What's Fair In Love And War: What's Fair In Love And War



Please note: This article is from 1993, it is not current and I'm posting it for information only. 



This brings us to the fundamental truth about the military's policies toward homosexuals. The point is not to eject all gays, but to allow the military to say it does not accept homosexuals. This preserves its image as the upholder of traditional notions of masculinity, the one institution in the nation that claims to take boys and turn them into men.

Boulder-Size Clues to How Humans Settled the Americas - The New York Times

Boulder-Size Clues to How Humans Settled the Americas - The New York Times:



Scientists have debated the two theories, and in recent years support for the coastal route has grown from archaeological finds, such as 13,000-year-old footprints on an island in British Columbia. Now, geologists studying boulders and bedrock on Alaska’s southeastern islands have found evidence of an ice-free route some 17,000 years ago down the coast that would have allowed human travel.



“We’re not definitively saying they took the coastal route,” said Alia Lesnek, a graduate student at the University at Buffalo and lead author of the study. “We have some of the first direct evidence that that was something that could be done.”

Quaker abolitionist Benjamin Lay was disowned for condemning slave owners - The Washington Post

Quaker abolitionist Benjamin Lay was disowned for condemning slave owners - The Washington Post:



“He actually suggested that we reconsider Benjamin Lay’s membership,” said Loretta Fox, the Abington Meeting’s administrator. “Maybe we could right the wrong done to him.”



But first, they had to come to terms with Lay. Some had misgivings. Was Lay the eccentric “little man” with a “diseased” intellect, as some historians portrayed him? Or was he the revolutionary anti-slavery hero portrayed by Rediker?

Hoecakes recipe and history: how the Southern cornbread got its name.

Hoecakes recipe and history: how the Southern cornbread got its name.:

According to a popular story, hoecakes got their name from the slave practice of cooking them on field hoes. If you've ever made hoecakes, this sounds like a near impossible task, and the appeal of this origin story is surely its evocation of the industriousness, fortitude, and resilience that defines much early American cooking, particularly African-American cooking. But the story’s power as a metaphor is stronger than its case as historical fact. As Rod Cofield, author of the paper “How the Hoe Cake (Most Likely) Got its Name,” explained to me, hoe was a colloquial term for griddle dating back to at least the 1600s in parts of England, where baking cakes on boards or griddles was commonplace.

 

Hoecakes recipe and history: how the Southern cornbread got its name.

Hoecakes recipe and history: how the Southern cornbread got its name.:

According to a popular story, hoecakes got their name from the slave practice of cooking them on field hoes. If you've ever made hoecakes, this sounds like a near impossible task, and the appeal of this origin story is surely its evocation of the industriousness, fortitude, and resilience that defines much early American cooking, particularly African-American cooking. But the story’s power as a metaphor is stronger than its case as historical fact. As Rod Cofield, author of the paper “How the Hoe Cake (Most Likely) Got its Name,” explained to me, hoe was a colloquial term for griddle dating back to at least the 1600s in parts of England, where baking cakes on boards or griddles was commonplace.

 

Linda Brown dies; she was at center of Brown v. Board of Education desegregation case - CNN

Linda Brown dies; she was at center of Brown v. Board of Education desegregation case - CNN: Linda Brown dies; she was at center of Brown v. Board of Education desegregation case - CNN

Interior Secretary Zinke wants Spokane Tribe compensated for loss of land and lifestyle to Grand Coulee Dam | The Seattle Times

Interior Secretary Zinke wants Spokane Tribe compensated for loss of land and lifestyle to Grand Coulee Dam | The Seattle Times



The dam was built without fish ladders more than 75 years ago, cutting off critical salmon runs. Tribal lands were flooded, forcing families out. “I like the challenge of some of these older wrongs that need to be righted,” said Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke.

Interior Secretary Zinke wants Spokane Tribe compensated for loss of land and lifestyle to Grand Coulee Dam | The Seattle Times

Interior Secretary Zinke wants Spokane Tribe compensated for loss of land and lifestyle to Grand Coulee Dam | The Seattle Times



The dam was built without fish ladders more than 75 years ago, cutting off critical salmon runs. Tribal lands were flooded, forcing families out. “I like the challenge of some of these older wrongs that need to be righted,” said Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke.

Underground Railroad refuge for hundreds of slaves discovered in Philadelphia - The Washington Post

Underground Railroad refuge for hundreds of slaves discovered in Philadelphia - The Washington Post: Underground Railroad refuge for hundreds of slaves discovered in Philadelphia - The Washington Post

Seattle is shedding diversity; the state's minority populations grow | Crosscut

Seattle is shedding diversity; the state's minority populations grow | Crosscut

How social media spread a historical lie - The Washington Post

How social media spread a historical lie - The Washington Post: How social media spread a historical lie - The Washington Post

How Watermelons Became a Racist Trope - The Atlantic

How Watermelons Became a Racist Trope - The Atlantic: How Watermelons Became a Racist Trope - The Atlantic

Dukakis and the Tank - POLITICO Magazine

Dukakis and the Tank - POLITICO Magazine: The inside story of the worst campaign photo op in history.

Clothes as Historical Sources: What Bloomers Reveal about the Women Who Wore Them - American Historical Association

Clothes as Historical Sources: What Bloomers Reveal about the Women Who Wore Them - American Historical Association: Clothes as Historical Sources: What Bloomers Reveal about the Women Who Wore Them - American Historical Association

Rayon, an Epidemic of Insanity, and the Woman Who Fought to Expose It

Rayon, an Epidemic of Insanity, and the Woman Who Fought to Expose It: Rayon, an Epidemic of Insanity, and the Woman Who Fought to Expose It

How Bacon and Eggs Became the American Breakfast

How Bacon and Eggs Became the American Breakfast: How Bacon and Eggs Became the American Breakfast

How Bacon and Eggs Became the American Breakfast

How Bacon and Eggs Became the American Breakfast: How Bacon and Eggs Became the American Breakfast

"Naming of Parts"

"Naming of Parts": "Naming of Parts"

Native Americans, Seattle’s original residents, are also its most likely to be homeless | The Seattle Times

Native Americans, Seattle’s original residents, are also its most likely to be homeless | The Seattle Times: Native Americans, Seattle’s original residents, are also its most likely to be homeless | The Seattle Times



In a country where Native Americans die at higher rates than most Americans from diabetes, drugs and homicide, and have experienced a long history of often violent displacement, they also make up an outsized portion of the homeless population.



In King County, Native Americans and Alaskan Natives are less than 1 percent of the overall population but nearly 6 percent of its homeless population, a pattern that repeats in cities across the U.S. Once homeless, they are also the least likely racial or ethnic group in the county to find housing.

Author discusses new book in which he criticizes use of metrics in higher education

Author discusses new book in which he criticizes use of metrics in higher education: Author discusses new book on what he views as the dangers of an obsession with numbers in analyzing admissions, academic success, faculty productivity and more in higher education.

Study finds humanities majors land jobs and are happy in them

Study finds humanities majors land jobs and are happy in them: Study finds humanities majors land jobs and are happy in them



https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2018/02/07/study-finds-humanities-majors-land-jobs-and-are-happy-them

How Halitosis Became a Medical Condition With a "Cure" | Smart News | Smithsonian

How Halitosis Became a Medical Condition With a "Cure" | Smart News | Smithsonian: A 1928 ad for Listerine reads in part: “No matter how charming you may be or how fond of you your friends are, you can not expect them to put up with halitosis (unpleasant breath) forever. They may be nice to you—but it is an effort.” (Bettmann/CORBIS)

The allure of American gun advertising through the ages | The Blue Review

The allure of American gun advertising through the ages | The Blue Review: Over the past century, gun advertising campaigns have seized upon all of our desires and insecurities, solidifying guns’ role in American culture.

Hey Historians: Nostalgia Can Be Good for Us | History News Network

Hey Historians: Nostalgia Can Be Good for Us | History News Network: Hey Historians: Nostalgia Can Be Good for Us | History News Network

You go downstairs to retrieve something, and, arriving flummoxed, completely forget why you went. This happens a lot with age, frustratingly, along with forgetting someone’s name, who gave you that birthday tie or who wrote The Leviathan. As a historian, your profession involves remembering certain detailed facts. As a cognitive neuroscientist, mine is too. Yet we’re both forced to use organs that can’t remember for 30 seconds that what we actually needed from the basement was toilet paper. How can our aging bodies work with such consistently unreliable recording instruments?

Truth is, they can’t.

I Have a Message for You - The New York Times

I Have a Message for You - The New York Times: I Have a Message for You - The New York Times

Traveling while black: Why some Americans are afraid to explore their own country - The Washington Post

Traveling while black: Why some Americans are afraid to explore their own country - The Washington Post: Traveling while black: Why some Americans are afraid to explore their own country - The Washington Post

Naomi Parker Fraley, the Real Rosie the Riveter, Dies at 96 - The New York Times

Naomi Parker Fraley, the Real Rosie the Riveter, Dies at 96 - The New York Times: Naomi Parker Fraley, the Real Rosie the Riveter, Dies at 96 - The New York Times



Unsung for seven decades, the real Rosie the Riveter was a California waitress named Naomi Parker Fraley.



Over the years, a welter of American women have been identified as the model for Rosie, the war worker of 1940s popular culture who became a feminist touchstone in the late 20th century.

Ballard Locks: They don’t move a lot of freight, but they mean a lot of money — and need repair | The Seattle Times

Ballard Locks: They don’t move a lot of freight, but they mean a lot of money — and need repair | The Seattle Times: Ballard Locks: They don’t move a lot of freight, but they mean a lot of money — and need repair | The Seattle Times



The machines used to raise and lower the water levels inside the Locks, for instance, have had to last since the Army Corps of Engineers installed them in 1917.

500 years later, scientists discover what probably killed the Aztecs | World news | The Guardian

500 years later, scientists discover what probably killed the Aztecs | World news | The Guardian: 500 years later, scientists discover what probably killed the Aztecs | World news | The Guardian



On Monday scientists swept aside smallpox, measles, mumps, and influenza as likely suspects, identifying a typhoid-like “enteric fever” for which they found DNA evidence on the teeth of long-dead victims

Northwest History: Spokane's Great Viking Rune Hoax

Northwest History: Spokane's Great Viking Rune Hoax: Northwest History: Spokane's Great Viking Rune Hoax



n July 11, 1926, the New York City readers of the Brooklyn Daily Eagle took up a question that perhaps none of them had previously considered. What were they to make of the alleged discovery of Viking runes in Spokane, Washington? "Query--Who Discovered America First? Bobs Up in Alleged Runic Inscriptions" screamed the headline, over a delightful illustration of a cartoon Columbus shaking hands with a stereotypical Viking. The caption reads "Says the shade of Leif Erickson to the shade of Christopher Columbus: 'Shake! We both did a good job!'"

The Iconic Windmills That Made the American West - Atlas Obscura

The Iconic Windmills That Made the American West - Atlas Obscura: The Iconic Windmills That Made the American West - Atlas Obscura



In A Field Guide to American Windmills, the historian T. Lindsey Baker writes that “the first commercially successful self-governing [or self-regulating] American windmill” was developed in New England in the mid-1850s, by a salesman named John Burnham and a machinist named Daniel Halladay. Unlike more traditional European-style windmills, The Halladay Windmill Company’s product was nimble; it could swivel to face the changing wind and angle its blades to adjust speed and avoid cracking in powerful gusts. Most importantly, it could do all of this mechanically, responding to the power and direction of the wind without the help of people.

Female inmates sterilized in California prisons without approval | Reveal

Female inmates sterilized in California prisons without approval | Reveal: Doctors under contract with the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation sterilized nearly 150 female inmates from 2006 to 2010 without required state approvals, The Center for Investigative Reporting has found.

At least 148 women received tubal ligations in violation of prison rules during those five years – and there are perhaps 100 more dating back to the late 1990s, according to state documents and interviews.

From 1997 to 2010, the state paid doctors $147,460 to perform the procedure, according to a database of contracted medical services for state prisoners.

STERILIZED in the Name of Public Health

STERILIZED in the Name of Public Health: Abstract

In exploring the history of involuntary sterilization in California, I connect the approximately 20 000 operations performed on patients in state institutions between 1909 and 1979 to the federally funded procedures carried out at a Los Angeles County hospital in the early 1970s.

Highlighting the confluence of factors that facilitated widespread sterilization abuse in the early 1970s, I trace prosterilization arguments predicated on the protection of public health.

This historical overview raises important questions about the legacy of eugenics in contemporary California and relates the past to recent developments in health care delivery and genetic screening.

When California Sterilized 20,000 of Its Citizens | Essay | Zócalo Public Square

When California Sterilized 20,000 of Its Citizens | Essay | Zócalo Public Square



Our dataset reveals that those sterilized in state institutions often
were young women pronounced promiscuous; the sons and daughters of
Mexican, Italian, and Japanese immigrants, frequently with parents too
destitute to care for them; and men and women who transgressed sexual
norms. Preliminary statistical analysis demonstrates that during the
peak decade of operations from 1935 to 1944 Spanish-surnamed patients
were 3.5 times more likely to be sterilized than patients in the general
institutional population.

In the Bones of a Buried Child, Signs of a Massive Human Migration to the Americas - The New York Times

In the Bones of a Buried Child, Signs of a Massive Human Migration to the Americas - The New York Times: In the Bones of a Buried Child, Signs of a Massive Human Migration to the Americas - The New York Times