Greetings, readers! After a needed detour into non-political blog topics (Canadian mysteries, American connections to Monet), I have...

Claude Monet (1840-1926). Hardly an unfamiliar name to anyone who knows the history of art. If the art of the Renaissance in the early...

Greetings, readers! I am changing blog subject areas yet again- this time pivoting away from politics entirely. As with anyone interested...

In the first part of my story about the federal civil service, I went into the background: how the present system was started with the...

Our returning president, Donald Trump, has been very clear about his attitudes and emotions in regard to the more than 2 million workers...

Part 3- The Political Legacy (1985-now) -“Steelworkers believe that their skills set themselves above anyone else in manufacturing and...

Greetings, readers! For the last installment of my 3 parts on the background of today’s political polarization (the first being on the...

How are human-caused climate change and human food habits intersecting? It’s one of the most important facets of our species’...

Note to regular readers: you will notice that I’ve interrupted my current post sequence on how we got so politically polarized (which I...

Welcome to the second of my polarization posts- tracing, in this election season, how the opposition between our two political parties...

I am going to be truly “original” in my choice of topic for this moment- politics!! The word that has come to be linked- shackled!- to...

In the first part of my post about the South Carolina constitution of 1868, I talked about the background, including the massive...

On Jan. 14, 1868, a large group of well-dressed men gathered in the heart of Charleston, South Carolina, in front of a 3-story brick...

To readers: this is the 2nd post that draws from your topic suggestions- this time by my sister Janet! It takes me back to my academic...

To recap the first part of this story about the top secret VENONA Project (1943-1980)- the most success the U.S. ever had in reading...

By its very nature and length, the Cold War (1945-1991) involved more sustained mutual espionage (particularly by the two superpowers-...

For this final post in my long Sunbelt series, I will conclude with a short summary of why each of the 3 states I’ve been examining...

This next-to-last installment of my Sunbelt series will focus on Florida’s history between the end of World War II and the opening of...

As in all posts of this series, I am grappling with a set of interconnected questions, all aimed at analyzing why three Sunbelt states...

This post will continue my overall theme of examining why three so-called “Sunbelt” states have come to dominate the nation today in...