Twentieth Century
Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin: Journalist, Abolitionist, Suffragist, Shin-Kicker
A hundred years ago, on August 18, 1920, the Nineteenth Amendment, which gave women the right to vote, was ratified. A lot of us planned to celebrate, in public and out loud. Many of those celebrations have been postponed for a year so we can party like it’s 1920. Luckily, it’s easy to practice social…
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Ernie Pyle’s War
A handful of the journalists who reported on the Second World War have kept a place in the U.S.’S historic memory in the years since the war: Edward R. Murrow, William Shirer (1), Margaret Bourke-White, cartoonist Bill Mauldin.(2) Even within that short list, Ernie Pyle was and is a special case. Only Mauldin came close…
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The Ghosts of Eden Park: A Review and an Invitation
Often a review of a work of narrative non-fiction will claim that said work reads like a novel. With all due respect to my fellow reviewers, it is seldom true. The Ghosts of Eden Park is an exception. Karen Abbott combines impeccable research with the story-telling devices of fiction to create a work of narrative…
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