This Day in History: The New York Stock Exchange is Formed.
On this day in history the NYSE was formed, we take a closer look.
Food Trends:
From Fast to Slow Food, Factory to Organic Farms
Andrew Smith, our go-to American Food guru is back again this week with a look at American food trends. What trend do you think has been, and will be, the most influential: Fast Food, Slow Food, Factory Farms or Organic Farms?
Birds and Bees and Babies
Eve Mason Ekman comments on the problem of balancing careers with children.
The Mother’s Day Gift I Want: Author Joyce Antler Helps Us Celebrate
Joyce Antler helps us celebrate Mother’s Day.
American Food Personalities
Andrew Smith helps us weigh in on American food personalities.
A Few Questions For Geoffrey E. Hill
Geoffrey Hill talks to OUP about an elusive bird.
Rock The Vote: Favorite Fake Culinary Icons
Who is your favorite culinary icon who never lived?
James McCune Smith
John Stauffer, the editor of The Works of James McCune Smith: Black Intellectual and Abolitionist, has organized McCune Smith’s writings around genre and chronology. Stauffer, along with three other distinguished historians will discuss Smith’s life, work, and legacy at The New York Historical Society.
Lives Across The Pond: John Muir
A biographical look at John Muir.
You Never Call! You Never Write!: A Video
A video interview with Joyce Antler.
Mother’s Marathon
Joyce Antler, author of You Never Call! You Never Write: A History of the Jewish Mother, is the Samuel Lane Professor of American Jewish History and Culture at Brandeis University. Yesterday we posted a Q and A with her daughter, comedian, Lauren Antler. Last week Joyce wrote about Passover. Today she weighs in on the […]
A Few Questions For Joyce Antler
Instead of asking Joyce questions ourselves, we asked her daughter, Lauren Antler to quiz her mom. Below is what Lauren found out.
The Media and Congressional Investigations
Tune in tomorrow morning from 8 to 9 a.m. to see Donald Ritchie on C-Span’s Washington Journal. In the post below Ritchie puts the current Congressional committee investigations into the Bush administration in historical perspective.
Allen Ginsberg: A Decade Gone Today
A link on the anniversary of Allen Ginsberg’s death.
Passover and Mom
Joyce Antler teaches American Studies at Brandeis University and is the author of You Never Call! You Never Write!: A History of the Jewish Mother. Below Antler imparts some Passover wisdom in an article made for sharing with your mother. For those of you celebrating, “L’shana ha’ba-ah b’Yerushalayim.” While Jews everywhere in the world sit […]
Dreams of Africa in Alabama: an excerpt
On a January night in 2002, a truck backed up to a statue in front of Union Missionary Baptist Church, north of Mobile, Alabama. One or two people got out, cut through parts of the heavy bronze bust, ripped it from its brick base, and disappeared with their loot. The theft shocked and angered the congregation of pastor A. J. Crawford, Sr.