This set of portraits from the 1890s provides a very good lesson: These people posed in the overly serious manner of their time, but they were playful too, and that side of them broke through easily enough, as we see here. The people of the past were ... Read more
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It’s little things that save the world and make it livable; things like a strip of tape that someone went out of their way to paste on a raised piece of sidewalk. It’s a little thing, but important. First, and obviously, it likely prevent ... Read more -
This is the spot, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, where 5,000 people rallied spontaneously to free a man named Joshua Glover. Glover was an escaped slave, whom US Marshals had arrested near Racine, Wisconsin and transported to the court house and prison tha ... Read more