Voice Choices
January 30, 2013Celebrating two
american legends
Blogs
April 16, 2012Procrastinating taxpayers: wonder why you're getting a couple extra days to file your taxes this year?
April 15 fell on a Sunday this year, so you can thank a Christian for the first extra day, as politicians are so terrified of offending them, they've never liked to do government business on Sunda ... More >>
Blogs
March 22, 2012In a brief break from the depressing news we've been covering lately, we wanted to weigh in on presidential toys. You may have heard that Romney aide Eric Fehrnstrom had something to say about Etch A Sketch yesterday.
"I think you hit a reset button for the fall campaign," Fehrnstrom said, before ... More >>
Voice Choices
November 23, 2011Blogs
August 4, 2011This is a TV appearance from 1956, by a 96-year-old man named Samuel Seymour:
As a five-year-old boy, he saw John Wilkes Booth shoot Abraham Lincoln. Which happened in 1865.
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Blogs
June 28, 2011 George Washington didn't really chop down a cherry tree, but he was fond of cherries.It is said that George Washington had wooden teeth, and they were on display in a museum somewhere. They told us that in elementary school. Actually, his dentures were carved from a hippo horn.
Blogs
May 26, 2011(This is not Dennis Pogue.)Whiskey is as American as apple pie. At least that's what Dennis Pogue, chief archaeologist at Mount Vernon, would have you believe. Over the last several years, he's spent much of his time making George Washington's whiskey (our first president was a distiller, in ... More >>
Voice Choices
March 9, 2011Theater
February 9, 2011Rebs & Jews & slaves in Matthew Lopez's MTC play
Voice Choices
January 12, 2011Voice Choices
August 4, 2010Blogs
July 26, 2010President Obama is about to make, um, history, by becoming the first U.S. President to appear on a daytime TV talk show -- something George Washington or Abraham Lincoln could never actually get away with, media being what it was in those days (also, they weren't exactly lookers). In the mode ... More >>
Voice Choices
June 29, 2010Blogs
May 24, 2010President Obama doesn't make the list--the word is still out--though he seems to be showing promising enthusiasm for this peach. (credit: Democratic National Committee)
It's too early to predict whether Barack Obama is going to be one of our greatest foodie presidents, though the signs are g ... More >>
Music
March 2, 2010Blogs
January 18, 2010As we close out MLK Day for the year, let us not forget what he was really fighting for: the Republican Party, and small government. King was a registered Republican, which prompts a dizzying peroration by the blogprof, who scorns the Democratic Party for supporting the Confederacy in the Civil War, ... More >>
Dance
November 17, 2009The choreographer steps up to Lincoln and the Civil War
Theater
September 29, 2009And coming of age in A Boy and His Soul
Voice Choices
June 24, 2009Voice Choices
June 24, 2009Voice Choices
June 3, 2009Voice Choices
January 28, 2009Honoring America's visionaries and change-makers
Columns
November 19, 2008Blogs
October 31, 2008Voice Choices
September 10, 2008See what democracy looks like
Theater
November 20, 2007Rebel Voices shows the limits of liberal good intentions
Blogs
September 19, 2007News
November 14, 2006News
October 17, 2006Bush becomes commander in chief of Congress. The junior senator from New York objects.
NYC Life
August 15, 2006On patrol with the 119th New York Volunteers
NYC Life
June 27, 2006What did our Founding Fathers Get Wasted On?
Film
February 7, 2006The power of nightmares: Russian thriller and Southern mock-doc imagine scary dystopias
Film
February 7, 2006Facing the facts in slavery satire's rewritten history
NYC Life
November 15, 2005Specials
October 18, 2005Books
October 19, 2004Books
October 12, 2004News
October 12, 2004News
May 11, 2004News
November 25, 2003Bush's Handlers Put Him in a Lincoln
Music
September 16, 2003Cowboy and Indian, Sinner and Believer, Patriot and Protester, the Man in Black Walks his Final Line
News
January 28, 2003News
November 5, 2002A Law Punishing Slavery Now
News
February 19, 2002INS Crackdowns and Bureaucracy Threaten America’s Tradition as a Nation of Immigrants
Specials
November 27, 2001Film
August 28, 2001Nat Turner’s Second Coming
News
November 28, 2000Slavery’s Legacy Shackled the Black Vote—And Cost Gore Thousands of Ballots
Art
October 31, 2000News
July 18, 2000Our Historical Illiteracy
Theater
February 2, 1999- More >>
