Category: History

Grand Grocery Company, Lincoln, NE, 1942

Reproduction from color slide. Photo by John Vachon. Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress
From the Denver Post’s Captured: America in Color from 1939-1943.

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.