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A rural scene featuring a handmade sign that says "Meat Shoot" with the list of dates in January, February, March and April

What Gets Passed Down

Seth R. Merritt

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This piece tells a story of rural Southern Missouri through the forms of knowledge inherited when the state offers nothing: no direction, no infrastructure, no recognition. The author is from Douglas County, where his family still hunts and welds and buries its dead. Electricity came late. Broadband still hasnโ€™t come at all. Seth comes from the Western Cherokee Nation of Arkansas and Missouri, a tribe erased not just by settler removal but by federal recognition itself.
An Ordinary White

An Ordinary White: My Anti-Racist Education

Zhandarka Kurti

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Interview with esteemed labor historian David Roediger about his memoir, An Ordinary White: My Anti-Racist Education.

Dancing for FDR: How My Father Met My Mother (and Vice Versa)

Paul Wasserman

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A key drama at the heart of all our personal origin stories is the saga of how our parents met. Iโ€™ve known the basics of this piece of my family history as long as I can ...

Onward, Christian Soldiers!

David Ranney

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๏ปฟA few weeks ago I received two letters in the mail. They were addressed to me by name and sent to my address on Washington Island, WI. One was from former Vice President of the U.S., ...

Olive Groves and Desert Tortoises

Gus Breslauer

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I once lived in a desert, over 10 years ago. The Southern Californian desert changed me. I have never considered the swamplands of the gulf coast to be a forgiving land, but the urban environment has ...

How Did I Get Here?, part 3: Iowa City Activism in the 1970s

David Ranney

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The following is the third in a series of three excerpts from David Ranney’s longer piece “Reflections: Well, How Did I Get Here?” After leaving graduate school in 1966, I entered what I have called my ...

How Did I Get Here?, part 2: Rudy

David Ranney

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The following is the second in a series of three excerpts from David Ranney’s longer piece “Reflections: Well, How Did I Get Here?” Prior to going away to college, my interaction with Black people had been ...

How Did I Get Here?, part 1: On My Futile Attempt to Become a High School Athlete

David Ranney

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What follows is an excerpt from a longer piece that explores how a red, white and blue diaper baby, raised by conservative Republican parents in a largely conservative Republican and all white suburb in a conservative ...

Lessons from Rosemarie: My 25 years in Brooklyn

Theodore Hamm

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โ€œKeep going down Atlantic, then hang a left at Bedford,โ€ advised the lot attendant, a white guy in his 60s, as my pal Patrick and I dropped off a U-Haul truck at the corner of Flatbush ...

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Some War Stories โ€“ with Don Hamerquist & Janeen Porter

Mike Morgan

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On the Release of A Brilliant Red Thread by Don Hamerquist ย 06/21/23, Presentation at Brooklyn Book Event It has been my privilege to know and work with Don Hamerquist and his partner Janeen Porter for a ...
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