The past is never dead. It's not even past
In September 1935, Jimmie Lee Robinson and fourteen other Black Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) workers stationed at Palo Duro State Park in the Texas Panhandle wrote to President Franklin Delano Roosevelt to protest their treatment in the CCC camp. “We work some time six days in a week,” they said, “and have to go to […]
I was on a train listening to the podcast The Road to Now and I couldn’t stop laughing. The hosts joked about 19th-century drunken slogans, American daredevil Sam Patch, a feud fought by jumping off Passaic Falls, and a ship with an effigy of Andrew Jackson sent over a waterfall. [1] As I stifled my […]
My grandparents and I looked down onto the vast Sonoran Desert from Mount Lemmon, north of Tucson, Arizona. At nearly 8,000 feet, quaking aspen, cottonwood, alder, and other tree species surrounded us—a stark contrast with the desert below. An audio guide played on my grandma’s Samsung Galaxy as we took in our surroundings. The voice, […]