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Two disputed elections, part 4
The United States has seen numerous disputed elections in its history, from the presidency on down to the state and local level. One contested election occurred in 1918 in a campaign for a seat in...
Two disputed elections, part 3
With the 1876 presidential election being so close that its outcome was disputed, Congress created a 15-member commission to resolve the matter. The question before the commission was whether to...
Two disputed elections, part 2
When the Civil War ended in 1865, Republican members of Congress refused to allow former Confederate states to have seats in that body for several years. Meanwhile, over the veto of President Andrew J...
Two disputed elections, part 1
As everyone should know, the United States has experienced several contested (or disputed) elections in its past. In a democracy such as ours, fair elections are crucial to a functioning government....
The Great Pretendian, part 5
As Jamake Highwater became an increasingly prominent figure in American Indian literary and cultural circles, more and more people in the United States came to know him. The number of books he was pub...
The Great Pretendian, part 4
In the late 1960s and for several years thereafter, the American literary world was witnessing what eventually became known as the Native American Renaissance. Numerous American Indian authors were...
The Great Pretendian, part 3
In 1969 Jackie Marks made his way from California to New York City to further his journalism career. Marks was already somewhat successful, having published numerous magazine articles and two books....
The Great Pretendian, part 2
In February 1931 in Los Angeles, California, Marcia Marks gave birth to a baby boy. She and her husband, Alexander, named their child Jackie. Jackie Marks grew up in Los Angeles and graduated from...
The Great Pretendian, part 1
A few years ago, when I was in graduate school hoping to become an important historian of the American West (and land a job in a university), my advisor and mentor was an expert on Native American...
Big man in congress, part 3
Dixon Lewis was an influential member of the U.S. Senate when he died in October 1848 at the relatively young age of 46. Having married into the politically powerful Elmore family, Lewis had a very...
Big man in Congress,, part 2
As we saw last week, Dixon Hall Lewis served almost two decades in Congress: more than 15 years in the House of Representatives and four-and-a-half years in the Senate. A states’ rights Democrat, L...
Big man in Congress, part 1
This story is about a man named Dixon Hall Lewis. He lived a privileged existence, having been born on a plantation in Virginia in 1802. Young Dixon was still a toddler when his parents relocated to...
Big man on court, part 3
After toiling in obscurity for several years on professional tennis’s primary minor league circuit, the International Tennis Federation (ITF), Chris Eubanks’s fortunes began turning around in the sum...
Big man on court, part 2
At the 2023 Wimbledon tennis tournament, which was played in early July, one of the most significant things that happened was the emergence of a new star who did not win a championship trophy but who...
Big man on court, part 1
Those of us who are tennis fans know that the most important tournament the sport has to offer is Wimbledon. Tennis has four “major” tournaments each year that are more important than all others. Thr...
Minor League Football, part 4
The premier professional football organization in the world is the National Football League (NFL). Currently, the league consists of 32 teams with each team employing 55 players. Consequently, there a...
Minor League Football, part 3
Fall is my favorite time of the year! For one thing, I love autumn weather better than that of the other seasons. For another, I enjoy watching football – in person and on television; whether p...
Random Thoughts
For decades, major league baseball (MLB) used numerous minor leagues to develop athletes into major league players. To some extent, it still does. But college baseball has become much more popular...
Minor League Football, part 1
Sports fans in the United States used to refer to baseball as the “national pastime” because it was the most popular sport in the country. I believe that somewhere along the line football sur...
Meeting Gordon Lightfoot, part 5
While my wife and I were standing outside a Rose State College building hoping to get a chance to meet Gordon Lightfoot when he made his way to his tour bus, a man exited the building behind us and...
Meeting Gordon Lightfoot, part 4
On an evening in June 2016 my wife and I drove to Oklahoma City to see Gordon Lightfoot in concert at Rose State College. She was almost – but not quite – as excited as I was because she, too, had...
Meeting Gordon Lightfoot, part 3
Singer-songwriter Gordon Lightfoot experienced much success in the 1970s and early 1980s. But success brought with it a hectic lifestyle. Lightfoot often enjoyed – but sometimes regretted – the fas...
Meeting Gordon Lightfoot, part 2
When Gordon Lightfoot scored a Top 5 hit in 1970 with “If You Could Read My Mind,” it launched his career as a singer in the United States. The song’s success surprised both him and his record compa...
Meeting Gordon Lightfoot, part 1
Singer-songwriter Gordon Lightfoot died on May 1. He was 84 years old, having been born on Nov. 17, 1938, in Orillia, Ontario, 90 miles from Toronto – Canada’s largest city. Lightfoot loved to sing as...
Random Thoughts
After “Call It Sleep” became an international best-selling novel in the 1960s, Henry Roth occasionally dreamed of reviving his literary career. He tried to write a few things but produced nothing of s...
