and how important the work of historians and journalists is. The“Manual for Survival”by the US historianKate Brownis also about civil courage of some scientists and doctors who acted where others blindly took the side of power, money and authority. ...
Kate Brownis an award-winning historian of environmental and nuclear history at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Her...
Howard Segal admires the travelogue of a self-confessed ‘professional disaster tourist’ covering a variety of global wastelands
“He started violently at finding himself so close to a bronze-brown tangle that almost swept his chin - to a hot cheek only a few inches away from his shoulder, to a pair of young, dark eyes that gleamed for an instant unconscious things into his own” (1:134). Fred kisses her and...
Hi there! I’m Megan Kate Nelson, a writer, historian, road cyclist, and cocktail enthusiast. And starting in September, I will be the 2024-2025 Rogers Distinguished Fellow in 19th-Century American History at the Huntington Library in San Marino, California. While I am there, I will be fi...
―SFPD Sgt. Adam Plantinga, author of400 Things Cops Know“Shots Firedis a gripping account of what really happens when police officers find themselves in deadly-force encounters. The author points out that ‘from the Michael Brown incident on August 9, 2014 to the end of that year, forty-...
The reclusive (but freshly relevant) experimental pop singer Kate Bush, the one-of-one rapper Missy Elliott and 90-year-old country stalwart Willie Ne
And she notes issues of colorism that Black women with darker skin tones experience: “How did this music start from ‘La Chica de Los Ojos Café’ by [Panamanian singer] Renato, which celebrates a Black woman with brown eyes and Black features, to that discourse then being reassi...
Kate Bowler: Hi there. My name is Kate Bowler, and this is Everything Happens. My dad is a historian and I’m a historian. Whenever I admit that, people always say, “The apple doesn’t fall far from the tree.” And my dad and I both chuckle because when do historians ever go ...
In grade school I had an art teacher who taught us how to paint trees. first you make a dark-brown trunk and branches, then you stipple leaves all over the branches in three colors of green. Voila, your tree. But the fact is that trees are really hard. There are no short cuts to...