How many of these six questions about slavery do you get right? According to this NPR article, our kids get, oh, 8% right on some shockingly basic questions. We have to fix this.

Another reason I love jazz (and Atlas Obscura).

Stanley Hallett was quite the mover and shaker here in town, who was or wan't a British peer. His house is across the street.

Not a parody: Two-spirit people have always been, and often been revered. Or at least allowed to live peacefully and productively as an equal with others. Not like modern Amurka.

It had been a horrible year and a half. After Dr. King was assassinated, the cities went up in flames, then RFK was killed just as he was about to run and win, the Vietnam war dragged on and on, Walter Cronkite was showing us unsettling pictures, my mom had just gotten divorced and we had had to move again... then Nixon decided to go for it in ( Read more... )