Charlie Chaplin is at it again!
A Drink with the “Professor” – Wade Linebaugh
The cocktail is a distinctly American phenomenon, and while it’s hard to mess up cold booze in a glass on a hot day, there are still measures of greater and lesser in the annals of our gin-swilling history.
The Game of Base Ball, How to Learn It, How to Play It – Henry Chadwick
The master of baseball writing remembers some games of his youth.
“Get a Brain! Morans”: The Meta-Discourse of Misspelled Tea Party Signs – Arlynda Boyer
Remember Descent the Highest form of Patriotic….
Notes on a Golden Record: Reading the Canon with Carl Sagan – Ed Simon
Carl Sagan has a posterity as an anthologizer of human culture that puts every editor of any Norton to shame.
Horror in the Sierra Nevadas: A First Hand Account of the Donner Party – Eliza Poor Houghton
A harrowing eye-witness account of the infamous Donner Party. “I learned many things which I could neither have understood nor remembered had they not made them plain.”
To take this dark shape and make it into words – Wade Linebaugh
Fourteen years later, this is the first Fall in three years I’m not teaching about 9/11 to my students in First-year composition. Its absence is an odd sort of ache I never expected.
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