by Nicholas Goldberg Americans are again battling over history. Is the year 1619 as important as 1776? Shall we tear down statues of Robert E. Lee — […]
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Aull About History 12 – The Whiskey Rebellion
[spreaker type=player resource=”episode_id=47082946″ width=”100%” height=”200px” theme=”light” playlist=”false” playlist-continuous=”false” autoplay=”false” live-autoplay=”false” chapters-image=”true” episode-image-position=”right” hide-logo=”false” hide-likes=”false” hide-comments=”false” hide-sharing=”false” hide-download=”true”] Welcome to part the eleventh episode of Aull About History, […]
Opposing perspectives on the Holocaust?
by LZ Granderson Can you think of an opposing view on the Holocaust that isn’t antisemitic? Evidently, a school administrator in Texas seems to think so. Gina Peddy, […]
Commission to ask Morgantown Council to replace Columbus Day with Indigenous People’s Day
MORGANTOWN — Who was Christopher Columbus? A devout Catholic and working-class man who spent a decade petitioning royal support for a voyage that altered the course of […]
No CRT in W.Va., so why is GOP banning history?
EDITOR’S NOTE: Today’s editorial continues from the editorial “Do lawmakers understand what they are banning?” published yesterday,Sept. 23. America is not as innocent and pure as the […]
Do lawmakers understand what they are banning?
Lawmakers should have to prove they understand the subject about which they are trying to pass legislation before that legislation can be enacted. If that were the […]
Fairmont State lecture series to focus on mining, Blair Mountain
There used to be an expression heard in San Giovanni in Fiore, and the other little Calabrase mountain towns near the arch of the boot in southern […]
An early ‘Occupy’ episode: Boom, bust and working-class protests
by James Haught The terrible Great Depression of the 1930s wasn’t America’s only economic crash. Various lesser ones happened through the 1800s, almost in a 20-year cycle, […]
Getting the last word on Blair Mountain
Bullets snapped the air, breaking branches and kicking dirt. Biplanes droned overhead, and some of the pipe bombs dropped by their pilots actually worked. It didn’t take […]
Aull About History 11 – Porte Crayon and Stonewall
[spreaker type=player resource=”episode_id=46183355″ width=”100%” height=”200px” theme=”light” playlist=”false” playlist-continuous=”false” autoplay=”false” live-autoplay=”false” chapters-image=”true” episode-image-position=”right” hide-logo=”false” hide-likes=”false” hide-comments=”false” hide-sharing=”false” hide-download=”true”] Welcome to part the eleventh episode of Aull About History, […]
