I have opted to list just American women, merely as a way to limit it. It is NOT a list of THE 20 Women I Most Admire. Actually, it was the first 20 that came to mind. Abigail AdamsThe wife of the second U.S. president and mother of the sixth used her "intellect and lively wit" to prod progress for ...

Filed under: Airlines, News I love good news from the aviation world - it really does bring a smile to my face amongst all the doom and gloom stories out there. A good example of something great comes from regional carrier Atlantic Southeast Airlines. For the first time in history, a domestic US fli...

Patrick Ruffini’s article “The Joe-the-Plumberization of the GOP” is as fascinating for what it unintentionally reveals as for what Ruffini argues. Let’s start here – If you want to get a sense of how unserious and ungrounded most Americans think the Republican Party is...

Seth Gitell reminds us that Jewish-Americans served in Vietnam.==========What's it like to be a Jew in Britain right now? Andrew Silow-Carroll asks Winston Pickett.==========Eric Herschthal revisits a major Jewish character in American literature: the late John Updike's Bech....

A February 20 Adage.com article asked "What Is the Best Book Ever Written on Marketing or Media?" Here's Advertising Age staffer Ken Wheaton's answer:Madison Avenue and the Color Line, by Jason Chambers, is pretty damn fascinating. And I always think......

On this Valentine's Day, Ken Burns' The American Civil War might not seem the best place to seek out love, but amidst the violence, there was one profound and memorable example. Sullivan Ballou was a Major in the Union army. He wrote this letter a week to his wife before his death after the battle o...

In preparation for Women's History Month, bloggers Historiann, Notorious Ph.D., Tenured Radical, and Another Damned Medievalist at Blogenspiel are joining forces to discuss Judith M. Bennett's History Matters: Patriarchy and the Challenge of Feminism.Each Monday in March, this team of......

Our friend the White Trash Republican left a comment on my post about the current state of affairs which contained this thought: One bright spot- Everyday has now become "a teachable moment" for my younguns, but so sad they are having to witness this. I agree, but we must be careful to learn all the...

First it was Tim Geithner , US Treasury Secretary. Now it’s Tom Daschle  Health and Human Services nominee.Thank goodness they aren’t that many posts left . Are Obama nominees trying to take Walter Anderson’s  title away from him?  I know, I know, I’m exaggerating just a ...

Elizabeth Alexander's "Praise Song for the Day" is a perfect specimen of ... bureaucratic verse, comments Adam Kirsch in The New Republic:The poem's argument was as hard to remember as its language; it dissolved at once into the circumambient solemnity.......