In the news today: A homeless shelter How a Manhattan homeless shelter and a Loudoun County cemetery both ask us to reckon with who we see—and who we’d rather forget.

And just added audio!
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In the news today: A homeless shelter How a Manhattan homeless shelter and a Loudoun County cemetery both ask us to reckon with who we see—and who we’d rather forget.

I wrote this in September.

This situation exists through out the United States. Understanding and preservation is something to stand for today.

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Forgetting Willard; Renaming Dulles Airport What does it mean to rename Dulles, without remembering Willard?

Before renaming Dulles after Donald Trump, can we at least learn whose homes and communities were erased to build it?

The recently built Willard Middle School honored those displaced families. Small token. Huge statement.

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Slave Power & States Rights The Slave Power and the Limits of Obedience.

I urge you to be creative! States have rights…
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The American Revolution: Forgotten Patriots Forgotten Patriots of the Revolution: Black Service, Hidden Records, and the Stories PBS Only Begins to Tell.

This is how we won the American Revolution.

Ken Burns mentions this in his recent documentary.

And this is how we rewarded the most dedicated soldiers.

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M is for Mississippi & Murder: Medgar Evers Medgar Evers, Jackson, and the Price of Being Seen. The Night the Words Came True... And Moral Clarity Arrived Too Late.

Today’s news hit a nerve.

Mississippi Today reports that language and materials at the Medgar & Myrlie Evers Home National Monument were pulled/edited.

Medgar Evers deserves more than a softened version of what happened. He deserves the truth.

This is it:
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Majestic. And Tragic.
Can you share yours?

The Day the Dinosaurs Became Dangerous Science, spectacle, and the rise of American eugenics

I love finding the different stories in our history. This one has little to do with dinosaurs, and everything to do with American history 100 years ago.

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