Here's the story of Rutherford Hayes

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Indian Givers Series vol. 1

When I first visited Northern Virginia twenty years ago, I noticed the name Sugarland all over a certain area and wondered what kind of name "Sugarland Run" could be. I just found out the full story behind the name, and the answer takes us deep into Nova's topography, ecology, and history ( Read more... )

-Alliquippa? (looking over the writer's shoulder) You mean she's a person? I thought that was just a place name near Pittsburgh.

-Yes, she was the most prominent sachem of the Seneca nation in Pennsylvania in the mid-18th century. She lived not at the place named for her, but at the confluence of the Monongahela and the Youghiogheny rivers, the site ( Read more... )

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Ahsennamenshi explained: "Before, we always had either a war sachem or a peace sachem. But now? It isn't war, but it doesn't feel like peace either. It feels more like wartime. So we have a new kind of sachem. He's a we-have-to-travel-and-find-new-homes sachem. So we're kind of making up some of the rules as we go along."

"What do you call this ( Read more... )

Charity Marks and her children are another example of how my people have crossed racial boundaries ( Read more... )

When I worked at the International Islamic University, I moonlighted as a copy editor for the university press. This brought me into contact with a historian from Kyrgyzstan (I wish I could remember his name), whose articles I edited; we had several discussions about Central Asian history ( Read more... )

I do belong to a race of people, not linked by lines of descent but by a commonality of orientation. Whatever the cause of that attraction, for nearly all it is not a choice. To deny that we are such a race is to deny our appearance throughout history in diverse places and under the most adverse of conditions ( Read more... )

William Gladstone: Your Majesty, work on the Criminal Law Amendment is nearing completion in Parliament. I am pleased to inform Your Majesty that we shall be undertaking to outlaw every manner of... indecent behaviour ( Read more... )

Benazir reminds me more of Raziya Sultan* than anyone else.

*Lived 1205-1240, daughter of Sultan Iltutmish, she was a warrior woman who ruled the Delhi Sultanate 1236-1240... and was deposed by force and then slain in battle fighting to recapture her rule...


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