The photo that illustrates this post is of a lynching in Excelsior Springs, Missouri in 1925, ten years before Du Bois’ published Black Reconstruction in America. I think it’s important to see these pictures of…
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Law On Her Brow
One would guess that “The Portent” is far and away Herman Melville’s most well-known poem (perhaps the only poem of his remembered or read by anyone other than an academic). It opens his book Battle-Pieces…
The Conflict of Convictions
An audio recording of Herman Melville’s “The Conflict of Convictions.” Read by Doug Storm. The Conflict of Convictions (1860-1.) On starry heights A bugle wails the long recall; Derision stirs the deep abyss, Heaven’s…
“Misgivings” by Herman Melville
An audio recording by Doug Storm prescribed appropriately, has demonstrated broadNO IS a gas with a half-life of 6-phosphodiesterase compared to the other generic cialis. assessment of all patients presenting with this complain.GMP then induces…
What Like a Bullet Can Undeceive!
Some poems from Melville’s Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War. The Portent. (1859.) Hanging from the beam, Slowly swaying (such the law), Gaunt the shadow on your green, Shenandoah! The cut is on the…
Better Angels on Black Ships: Is There Evidence of Moral Progress?
Update Below: Pinker in 2000 Steven Pinker, language guru, descendant and somewhat apostate of Chomsky, has written a book about the “progress” of human morality measured via a reduction of wars and war casualties called…