Keeping Time: A New Year’s Collection
...Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens Liz Tracey December 14, 2024 Scrooge became as good a friend, as good a master, and as good a man, as the good old city...
What We’re Reading 2024
...1992. If you want to dive into the saga—which contains several other award winners—Bujold has her own recommendations regarding reading order. Liz Tracey Cold Crematorium by Joszef Debreczeni was published...
Annotations: A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
In October 1843, Charles Dickens was in dire straits. As Les Standiford wrote in his book, The Man Who Invented Christmas: How Charles Dickens’s A Christmas Carol Rescued His Career...
The Treaty of Paris 1783: Annotated
The end of Revolutionary War hostilities between the United States and Great Britain came on October 19, 1781, with General Cornwallis surrendering to the Continental Army in Yorktown. While the...
Reading for LGBTQ+ History Month
...larger Black queer print media network. Harvey Milk’s Gay Freedom Day Speech: Annotated Liz Tracey June 13, 2022 Five months before his assassination in 1978, Harvey Milk called on the...
Andrew Jackson’s Speech on the Indian Removal Act: Annotated
On September 27, 1830, the United States government and the Choctaw Tribe signed the Treaty of Dancing Rabbit Creek, the first of what would ultimately be almost seventy treaties that...
Voting in American Politics: A Syllabus
...early films, but suffragists well recognized the importance of movies in getting their message out. The Voting Rights Act 1965: Annotated Liz Tracey August 26, 2022 The passing of the...
Richard Nixon Redux
...how much we still don’t know about Watergate and the Nixon Administration The Pardon of President Nixon: Annotated Liz Tracey September 8, 2022 President Ford’s unconditional pardon of Richard Nixon...
In the Mood for “Fake” Music?
...critics hear mood music as something to push against, general listeners enjoy a different experience, explains author Liz Pelly. “It turns out that playlists have spawned a new type of...
Reading for Juneteenth
...when it has real-world consequences. “What to the Slave is The Fourth of July?”: Annotated Liz Tracey July 4, 2023 On July 5, 1852, Frederick Douglass gave a Fourth of...