Category: History

A Modest Proposal to Redraw the U.S. Map

If you were shown an outline of the United States’ territory and asked to divide it into 50 distinct states, you might approach the question in any number of ways. Relative population parity might seem important. Or perhaps things like cultural heritage and contiguous metropolises and physical geography would drive your thinking.
But surely, no matter [...]

Happy MLK Day.

I wasn’t alive to witness Martin Luther King at work, but this speech makes me feel as though he’s coming right through the screen.