Gingrich disingenuous in his criticism of Obama re Rayvon Martin
I certainly got "The Talk". Or more correctly, my sisters and I got a series of messages, spoken and unspoken, about the way to speak, how to address authority figures such as the police, where to be...
View ArticlePaul and Mary Liz Stewart on WebTalkRadio.net about Underground Railroad
The Stewarts discuss their annual Underground Railroad conference that is being held this year at Russell Sage College in Troy, April 13-15.
View ArticleBuried Albany history
In 2005, an unmarked cemetery was accidentally discovered during construction along Route 32 (Broadway) in the town of Colonie. Based on historical research and skeletal analysis, it is believed the...
View Article1940s New York City – a seriously cool website
Back in 1997, a copy of a 250-page document was purchased from a local bookstore. It was “NYC Market Analysis”, published by four newspapers in 1943, “with photos, maps, data about each [city]...
View ArticleJournalism, by Joe Sacco – a review
Cartoonist/war correspondent Joe Sacco’s new book, JOURNALISM (Metropolitan Books; on sale June 22, 2012) is doing an interesting thing, addressing wars and other conflicts in recent human experience...
View ArticleThe new poll tax: voter ID
The right of citizens of the United States to vote...shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or any State by reason of failure to pay poll tax or other tax.
View ArticleThree myths about copyright law and where to start to fix it
The increasing length of copyright protection is not to the country's best interest.
View ArticleEliminating the word ‘Negro’
1930 - "Enumerators were instructed to no longer use the 'Mulatto' classification... Instead, they were given special instructions for reporting the race of interracial persons.
View ArticleFuture king of the Netherlands had visited Albany in 2009
I imagine this transition will create calls for another European monarch to step down to allow HER son to become king.
View ArticleRosa Parks was a troublemaker – I mean that in a GOOD way
Monday, February 4, 2013 would have been Rosa Parks' 100th birthday. In honor of that, the Postal Service is offering a Parks FOREVER stamp.
View ArticleMy favorite Taurus musicians/composers
The way it works is that the NY Philharmonic plays a section from Tchaikovsky's Nutcracker followed by the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra playing the Ellington/Strayhorn arrangement of the same section.
View ArticleUK archeological group to dig at Underground Railroad house
The Digventure folks had come to the area to visit the Darrow School in New Lebanon, NY to check out the nationally historic Shaker artifacts.
View ArticleMemorial Day infographic
Memorial Day, originally called Decoration Day, is a day of remembrance for those who died in service to their country. The holiday was officially proclaimed in 1868 to honor Union and Confederate...
View ArticleSome cake for your Constitution and Edward Snowden
I was a tutor of freshman taking the basic American Politics and Government introductory course back in the late 1970s.
View ArticleThe values of the humanities
A demand for saving art, keeping music, teaching civics in the schools is not asking for favors, Justice Souter proclaimed.
View ArticleThe 50th anniversary of the death of John Fitzgerald Kennedy
The one time I got to meet Earl Warren, along with a number of my classmates in the early 1970s, I really wanted to ask the by-then retired Chief Justice of the Supreme Court about the JFK assassination.
View ArticleKnocking at Midnight: Martin Luther King, Jr.
In the terrible midnight of war men have knocked on the door of the church to ask for the bread of peace, but the church has often disappointed them.
View ArticlePromoting Underground Railroad history: the Stewarts are biking along the...
Admit it: when you read "from Albany to Buffalo," you thought of the song.
View ArticleThe FantaCo/Smilin’ Ed Kickstarter
FantaCo owner/publisher/co-creator of Smilin' Ed, Tom Skulan,, is organizing a Kickstarter to create The Complete Smilin' Ed Comics. He's trying to raise $7500 by Thursday, December 11, 2014 at 1:12 AM...
View ArticleThe Ghetto Chopper T-shirt thing
Was the altered Price Chopper logo protected speech, as a trademark parody?
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