Joe Engel died last week. It’s unlikely you will know the name, especially if you don’t live in Charleston, S.C., his hometown since 1949. Joe never wrote […]
Tag: history
This could now be Weimar America
by Andreas Kluth Before we ponder the world’s biggest news this week, America’s surprisingly narrow midterm elections, let’s pay respect to Jair Bolsonaro. That’s because the Brazilian […]
Editorial Encore: Halloween’s origins and traditions
EDITOR’S NOTE: This editorial was originally published Oct. 31, 2021. Happy Halloween! A fun fact for you: “Halloween” is a contraction of “Hallow Eve” or All Hallows’ […]
Halloween’s roots spookier than witches, candy bars
by Tok Thompson As Halloween approaches, people get ready to celebrate the spooky, the scary and the haunted. Ghosts, zombies, skeletons and witches show up in yards, […]
New Emmett Till movie is hard to watch
See it anyway, and take teens with you by Jenice Armstrong Some movies are more important than others. Which is why, when I heard there was a […]
Like his predecessors, Biden relies on executive orders
by Carl P. Leubsdorf Like other recent presidential candidates, Donald Trump was highly critical during his initial campaign of the increasing presidential use of executive orders, in […]
How Hollywood producers created the first attack ads
by Greg Mitchell Once again, political mudslinging and false campaign ads threaten to take center stage in the final weeks before Election Day in November. This is […]
Gorbachev’s failures did not go deep enough
by Leonid Bershidsky Mikhail Gorbachev failed at everything he tried as the Soviet Union’s last leader. The state he led could only change the world for the […]
McCullough’s history never boring
I hated college history. The textbooks were mostly about dead white men, Abigail Adams excepted. The lectures were boring. I didn’t see how any of it related […]
118-year-old Terra Alta church recognized on the National Register of Historic Places
By Kaitlyn Eichelberger Over a century old and near identical to its original structure, the United Methodist Church of Terra Alta (Terra Alta FUMC) has been granted […]
