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Wednesday, August 30, 2023

Growing up in the last Century: WASHINGTON IN THE 1970s; FIRST TASTE OF CAPITOL HILL

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          US Capitol, circa 1970. 1973 had been a big, messy, turbulent year in my life.  That January, I’d gone to Rome, Italy, for a study...
Tuesday, August 29, 2023

Growing up in the last Century: DAD'S POLITICAL CAREER

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    One day shortly before my father passed away almost 30 years ago, in late 1994 at age 86, he started talking to me about his brief caree...
Sunday, January 9, 2022

Growing Up in the Last Century-- MY FIRST TASTE OF POLITICS: GETTING KICKED OUT OF THE POLLS BY THE ALBANY MACHINE, June 1972

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          Albany's long-time Mayor Erastus Corning with Democratic  Party Chairman Dan O'Connell (with hat), circa 1970.           T...
Tuesday, December 21, 2021

Growing Up in the Last Century: TEAR-GASSED in WASHINGTON, D.C., May 1970

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           I was just 18 years old, a college freshman, on May 4, 1970, when National Guardsmen in Ohio opened fire and killed four student ...
Sunday, July 12, 2020

Boss Tweed Audiobook : The Images and a five minute sample

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Wednesday, November 2, 2016

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    Click here for latest reviews of Trotsky in New York,1917:  
Tuesday, November 1, 2016

Grisha Ziv on Trotsky, 1917, translated from original Russian

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                                                  Trotsky, right, Alexandra Sokolovskaya, standing, and Ziv, front, circa 1898.

Coverage of Trotsky's arrival in New York, from the German and Yiddish press

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Trotsky's take on the Carnegie Hall anti-war meeting, February 8, 1917, from the original Russian

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Monday, March 3, 2014

A new Crimean War? Really?

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As a historian watching Vladimir Putin's Russia flout international law to send troops into Crimea – part of the separate country of U...
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Saturday, February 1, 2014

Yiddish Theater: Don't Forget Molly Picon

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Yiddish is not beautiful.  Harsh and gutteral, it makes you twist your face to get the sounds out. Many of its words are bastardized from G...
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Thursday, January 23, 2014

Guest Post: David Taylor on Anzia Yezierska, Part II

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Anzia Yerierska as a teenager in 1910s New York. Click here for Part I on Anzia’s rise, novels, films, and craft. Anzi...
Tuesday, January 21, 2014

Guest Blog: David Taylor on Anzia Yezierska, America's Immigrant "Hungry Heart" of the 1920s

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Publicity photo of Anzia Yezierska from Goldwyn studio period, circa 1922. Click here for Part II on Anzia, her legacy on Br...
Wednesday, September 18, 2013

More from Alice Longworth's scrapbook.

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German newspaper clip shows Alice socializing with ladies aboard the steamer Schiffes in 1905.  Click here for   -- Alice and Ni...
Wednesday, August 28, 2013

Alice Roosevelt and Nick Longworth: The actual engagement photos

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Alice wasn't shy in saving photos of herself.  This spread filled two full pages of the oversized scrapbook.   -- C li...
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Tuesday, July 16, 2013

Luck in politics? Ask Nick Longworth (R-Ohio), Speaker of the House,1925-1931.

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Page from 1887 Longworth scrapbook, Manuscript Room, Library of Congress. Click here for     --  Alice and Nick's engagement photos...
Wednesday, November 21, 2012

Health food claims? Nothing new here.

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  From the New York City's Jewish Daily News, July 12, 1926. "Zeit Gezunt!" says the headline.  "Be Healthy!...
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Tuesday, September 25, 2012

FAMILY HISTORY: Anniversary- One hundred years in America.

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 Copy of the original ship's manifest.  Our family is listed at lines ten through fourteen.  From Ancestry.com. I can't let ...
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Thursday, September 13, 2012

GUEST BLOG: Civil War- Antietam 1862 and its terrible general, George B. McClellan

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Oil painting of General George Brinton McClellan, from a photograph by Matthew Brady.    With all attention these days on the nati...
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Tuesday, September 11, 2012

Guest Photo: Roger Staubach and J. Edgar Hoover

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To celebrate the return of NFL football this week, our friend Sally Mott Freeman has given us this gem of a photo showing none less that...