Added on November 4, 2016 Culture White Woman in Blackface as a Black Man in a White Coat? Scary. Here’s a frank, perhaps surprising, and definitely disheartening admission: nothing you read here should be new to you. It’s been […]
Added on November 26, 2015 Historical essay The Paradox of Thanksgiving With its odd combination of tradition and invention, its appeals to the past and to the future, its ancestor worship […]
Added on November 24, 2015 Historical essay Nursing Thanksgiving In November 1820, the Reverend John Marsh delivered a Thanksgiving Day sermon in Haddam, Connecticut that couldn’t have been more […]