EXAMINING A RECENT ‘OH-HOW-SAD’ HOLLYWOOD MOMENT IN TERMS OF SOME OF THE MULTIPLE UNDERLYING ISSUES THAT IT RAISES PREFATORY REMARKS Should anyone ever doubt the profound and multifaceted interconnection of everything, he would only need to look at This Humble…
Category: History
post relating to historical events
Stacking the Deck All Over Again
ROBERT LA-FOLLETTE’S SENATE REPORT ON CIVIL-LIBERTIES VIOLATIONS OF LABOR RIGHTS AS A RETROSPECTIVE INTERJECTION OF 21ST CENTURY PRACTICE INTRODUCTION How do things really work on our planet now? One way of answering such a query is to respond that they…
Harking Back to Tinker
How Ought A Union Of Writers Respond To Evisceration Of Student Speech? Introduction Whatever one’s sense of the historical meaning of the initiation of the United States of America, the Bill of Rights, even without the addition of FDR’s ‘Economic…
Legacies of Social Equality & Social Democracy:
STUDYING 19TH CENTURY POPULAR LITERATURE INTRODUCTORY REMARKS AND OVERVIEW The two most popular novels of the nineteenth century, two of the only volumes to sell more than a million copies at home before century’s end—and many millions more copies abroad—were,…
Tearing Down the Walls
Global Trade & Local Oppression from the Coal Creek Wars to the ‘Debacle in Chattanooga’ With just a modicum of support, a much longer and more thorough examination of this vicious, bloody piece from Dixie’s past would be possible. That…
Blazing a Union Trail Through the Thickets of Time
AN INTRODUCTORY POSTING Before beginning today’s blog proper, the first of a twice-monthly post entitled “Blazing a Union Trail Through the Thickets of Time,” I wanted to introduce myself and say a few words about process and approach. My name…
If Copying Is Wrong, What’s a Copyright?
An Initial Brief None other than William Blackstone, storied British jurist and intellectual progenitor of much of the contemporary nexus of ownership and production, had a very astute insight. “There is nothing which so generally strikes the imagination and engages…
