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Tuesday Hangout - Love It or Leave It 7/23/19
When schools starts teaching American, I might even try to learn it.We all know xenophobia and racism are not new in this country, despite the ongoing “this isn’t who we are” hand-wringing. It...
View ArticleIn the Gloaming, Village Edition 7/23/19
This is not the post I planned for tonight, but I’ve had quite the struggle with my internet connection today; the concept of “connection” seems to have eluded my corner of the universe. So the...
View ArticleTuesday Hangout - The Cruelty Is the Point 7/30/19
I'm keeping my fingers crossed that my internet connection issues are history, and I'm going to work the plan that I had last week...tidbits by tweet today and text tonight. While the Current Occupant...
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In the Gloaming, Village Edition - 7/30/19
Deportation of striking miners from Bisbee, Arizona, on July 12, 1917. Striking miners and others are marched from Warren Ballpark along railroad tracks toward cattle cars belonging to the El Paso and...
View ArticleTuesday Hangout - Make America Gracious Again 8/6/19
Over the years, I've bought more than a few vintage/antique etiquette and hostess books, most of which have been passed on to my daughter. I purchased them as useful references for theatre...
View ArticleIn the Gloaming, Village Edition - 8/6/19
Phone etiquettexMobile Phone Etiquette: Ladies and Gentlemen may I recommend you all try this! #Etiquettepic.twitter.com/c6sP8AKW4kâ The Royal Butler (@TheRoyalButler) August 2, 2019x"Alternative...
View ArticleTuesday Hangout - Six Minutes of History 8/13/19
Words are superfluous.xVimeo VideoField of Vision - A Night at the Garden from Field of Vision on Vimeo.For those wanting more information, an interview with the filmmaker is here: A Night at the Garden.
View ArticleIn the Gloaming, Village Edition - 8/13/19
xAmerican National Socialists in the 1930's - The German American Bund:"An organization of patriotic Americans of German stock", founded in 1936.Had a membership estimated to be around...
View ArticleTuesday Hangout - Cheat, Fake, Fool, and Lie 8/20/19
I wasn't paying much attention to Twitter this past weekend, so I am grateful that Sis Dee's Sunday post (1619. The 400th anniversary of the real founding of America.) brought the 1619 Project to my...
View ArticleIn the Gloaming, Village Edition - 8/20/19
You decide: CHEAT (Chronic Historical Evasion and Trickery), FAKE (Finding Alternative Knowledge Elusive), FOOL (Forsaking Others’ Outstanding Literacy), or LIE (Lacking Introspection Entirely)? (For...
View ArticleTuesday Hangout - Election 2020: My/MI Junior Senator, Gary Peters 8/27/19
I've been saying for a few months now that my focus is not on the presidential primary race but on the U.S. Senate race in my own state. Gary Peters is one of two incumbent Democratic senators who is...
View ArticleIn the Gloaming, Village Edition - 8/27/19
The last tweet I posted in this morning’s post was this one:xðÂÂÂ¥ADOPT A SENATORðÂÂÂ¥ Keep Michigan Blue!â Re-Elect GARY PETERS Gary is a ranking member on the Homeland Sec Comm, member of 5...
View ArticleTuesday Hangout - SHEnanigans: Herstorians on Twitter 9/3/19
In what will come as shock to absolutely nobody, I'm a bit of a history buff. I was a history (and German) major in college, and I've always interspersed my mystery reading with history and...
View ArticleIn the Gloaming, Village Edition - 9/3/19
Tonight it’s “Random Kinda-Sorta-Related-to-History Tweet Night.” Without further ado…For those who prefer their history set to music:xOur FULL @OlivierAwards performance is available to watch NOW!...
View ArticleTuesday Hangout - Curiosity Piqued. Mississippi. 1890s. The Nadir. 9/10/19
On September 5th, Janesaunt posted about Jennifer Riley Collins, who is running for AG for Mississippi (this is the diary) and the intentional structural difficulties faced by African-American...
View ArticleIn the Gloaming, Village Edition - 9/10/19
After the 2016 election, a college friend, who knew that my focus of study had been 20th century European (especially German) intellectual history, asked me if I thought we would be entering an era...
View ArticleTuesday Hangout - The Lost Cause Myths We Still Haven't Busted 9/17/19
I became a history major, in part, because I had excellent, compelling history teachers throughout my childhood. It seemed to me (although I didn't have these words until I was much older) that they...
View ArticleIn the Gloaming, Village Edition - 9/17/19
This morning I posted about the neo-Confederate mythology that was promoted from roughly the 1890s forward. The myths I highlighted are still prevalent in our discourse and teaching of history today....
View ArticleTuesday Hangout - More Lost Cause Myths We Still Haven't Busted 9/24/19
Last week, we looked at two of the four key Lost Cause myths identified by James Loewen and Edward Sebesta in The Confederate and Neo-Confederate Reader: The "Great Truth" about the "Lost Cause". This...
View ArticleIn the Gloaming, Village Edition 9/24/19
I’m not doing a follow-on to my morning post this time around. Like most Michiganders, I’ve been keeping one eye on the UAW strike against GM, so tonight’s post will be about cars, in one form or...
View ArticleTuesday Hangout - Pod People 10/1/19
I'm not technology-averse, but neither I am a first-adopter. I had a flip phone long after everyone else had moved on to smartphones, and I didn't add texting to our phone package until 2009, when the...
View ArticleIn the Gloaming, Village Edition - 10/1/19
Guess who’s 46 today? I’ll give you a hint…xDevin Nunesâ Devin Nunesâ cow ð® (@DevinCow) September 30, 2019Ok, so maybe that was a little too helpful? At any rate, in “honor” of his...
View ArticleTuesday Hangout - The Strike That No One Is Talking About 10/8/19
As a kid growing up in Cleveland, I was aware, even hyper-aware, of any UAW strikes against the automakers. Maybe it was because we got the newspaper delivered everyday, and it was hard to miss the...
View ArticleIn the Gloaming, Village Edition - 10/8/19
H/t to WYgal for tonight’s “topic;” sometimes the bad news hits so hard and with such constancy that there is only one temporary escape that will work. This is mine; feel free to share yours in the...
View ArticleTuesday Hangout - SHEnanigans: Wangari Maathai 10/15/19
A few weeks ago I saw a random tweet about the progress of a tree-planting initiative in Kenya, similar to this:xTo attain the 10% treeð²ð³ð´ cover by 2022, one creative avenue for...
View ArticleIn the Gloaming, Village Edition - 10/15/19
Once again, it seems like the news is unrelentingly bad. I’m beginning to think I’m developing an ulcer; at the very least, I’m going through antacid tablets at a rate that suggests acid reflux. With...
View ArticleTuesday Hangout - When A Car Company Makes Planes 10/22/19
I've written about things related to the auto industry before, but usually from the union perspective or with a union-centric focus. Despite that, I'm not dismissive of the contributions that the...
View ArticleIn the Gloaming, Village Edition 10/22/19
In this morning’s post, I briefly mentioned Albert Kahn as the architect involved in the design of the Willow Run bomber plant. Willow Run was one of a long list of industrial designs that Kahn’s firm...
View ArticleTuesday Hangout - Pure Michigan Interlude 10/29/19
The second part of my Willow Run post will happen tonight; Monday was quite a day (and not in a good way), so there hasn't been time to get a proper post written. So until I can get the rest of the...
View ArticleIn the Gloaming, Village Edition - Cars, Planes, and History 10/29/19
Last week, we learned that Ford Motor Company, at the urging of Edsel Ford and against the wishes of Henry Ford, decided to get into the airplane-building industry prior to the U.S. entry into WWII....
View ArticleTuesday Hangout - Willow Run Mission Accomplished 11/5/19
In September 1942, President Roosevelt visited the Willow Run plant as part of a cross-country war industry tour. Despite being four months behind where it hoped to be, Ford showcased its bomber and...
View ArticleIn the Gloaming, Village Edition 11/5/19
It’s election day.xDems have the chance to win both houses of the Virginia legislature for the first time in 20 years, and Team Blue also can make historic gains in upstate New York and the Philly...
View ArticleTuesday Hangout - SHEnanigans: Packhorse Librarians 11/12/19
When the Works Progress Administration (WPA) was established in 1935, it had the responsibility for creating employment through developing infrastructure across the country. The building projects were...
View ArticleIn the Gloaming, Village Edition 11/12/19
This morning I wrote about the Pack Horse Library project of the Works Progress Administration (WPA). Tonight, the focus is on some of the other, lesser-know programs, particularly those which...
View ArticleTuesday Hangout - Public Law 110-82 11/19/19
As much as I enjoy writing about history, I am always aware that I am a white woman who, whether intentionally or not, will always center whiteness. On the occasions I write about African-American...
View ArticleIn the Gloaming, Village Edition - 11/19/19
Continuing where we left off in the morning post…
View ArticleTuesday Hangout - History Is. 11/26/19
Last week I mentioned that I would be doing a SHEnanigans post today, barring something catastrophic. The catastrophic has not happened, but there’s a change in plans anyway. My doubling down on...
View ArticleIn the Gloaming, Village Edition 11/26/19
Joker would call tonight’s post a Tweet-A-Rama; I have sometimes referred to this style as a Potpourri. But mostly it’s a hodge-podge of tweets that have struck my fancy. Feel free to add your own in...
View ArticleTuesday Hangout - SHEnanigans: Elizabeth Peratrovich 12/3/19
For most of us (and yes, there are some notable Village exceptions), the story of Alaska and its First People is a story sketched in the broadest outlines and with little detail. Most of us have heard...
View ArticleIn the Gloaming, Village Edition 12/3/19
It’s Giving Tuesday, and I’m featuring some of the more unique/interesting/even bizarre tweets/organizations I found while wandering around Twitter. Please note that I am not endorsing any particular...
View ArticleTuesday Hangout - Speaking His Truth: William Monroe Trotter 12/10/19
He was privileged as one of the "Talented Tenth," but a true ally to poor African-Americans. He was a newspaper editor and a Black Radical who alienated the full-range of the political spectrum, from...
View ArticleIn the Gloaming, Village Edition 12/10/19
A little bit of this; a little bit of that...bring your tweets and your conversations.Thread: May we all have an instant spouse when we need one.x1/ Four years ago, my daughter went into labor with...
View ArticleTuesday Hangout - Down the Rabbit Hole: We Don't Make Anything Anymore 12/17/19
Today brings another edition of my brain and how it works; going down the rabbit hole is actually one of the nicer ways of describing my thought processes. Today's topic started with this simple...
View ArticleIn the Gloaming, Village Edition 12/17/19
The thing about rabbit holes is they don't stop the minute you find an answer to your initial question. This morning, I explored what I learned when I investigated the question of WPA glassblowers and...
View ArticleTuesday All-Day Hangout - Sweets for the Sweet 12/24/19
Aphra Behn, who some might remember for her stellar Herstory posts and her involvement with the old Hillary News and Views days, tweeted this yesterday:xHere is something interesting about food,...
View ArticleTuesday All-Day Hangout - Be A Dreamchaser 12/31/2019
Pete Saunders (@petesaunders3 on Twitter) is one of my favorite bloggers; he writes a small blog, The Corner Side Yard, which generally focuses on urban planning-related issues. On Twitter, he...
View ArticleTuesday Hangout - Twitter Wisdom (It Happens) 1/7/20
This was not the post I planned at all, but I have a mid-morning interview, and this one requires some advance preparation. So my time for reading and writing just became secondary to job prep, and...
View ArticleTuesday Hangout - "Meet Me Halfway" and the Proposed United Methodist...
Every week, Moishe would pray to win the lottery. “Please God,” he would say, “let me win the lottery. I need to win the lottery.”After several years of this, God finally replied and God’s booming...
View ArticleTuesday Hangout - SHEnanigans, Twitter Style 1/21/20
The original plan for this week was to respond to a question asked by a reader of last week's post. But there has been a change in plans; I'm going with a female-centric tweet-a-rama today and will...
View ArticleTuesday Hangout - The Problem With Wine 1/28/20
Two weeks ago, after reading my explainer on the potential schism within the United Methodist Church, I was asked why Methodists use grape juice rather than wine at Communion. After all, Jesus turned...
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