Blogs about United States of America
15 blogs about United States of America.
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Alabama Yesterdays
“Random wanderings through Alabama history.” By A.J. Wright. 🇺🇸Updated
Birmingham Photo of the Day [84]: Gus Brown Recently I've been roaming through Alabama Mosaic again, a place of infinite distraction, and here's the result this time. The document below can be found here and here at the Library of Congress' digital collection, …
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Balkinization
“A group blog on constitutional law, theory, and politics.” 🇺🇸Updated
The Professional Utopians During the past 150 years, the human race grew fabulously rich. This was an accident. The notion that ordinary people could be made prosperous—let alone that this could become a conscious project—would have, for most …
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brr
“An Antarctica blog.” 🇺🇸Updated
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Caltrain HSR Compatibility Blog
“This blog exists to discuss compatibility between HSR and Caltrain, integration issues, and the impact on adjoining communities.” 🇺🇸Updated
The False Choice of Link21 Link21, the nascent megaproject to beef up the Bay Area's passenger rail network, features at its core a new underground transbay passenger rail crossing between Oakland and San Francisco. One of the major dilemmas facing …
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Ephemeral New York
“Chronicling an ever-changing city through faded and forgotten artifacts.” 🇺🇸Updated
A midcentury artist captures the anonymity of the subway in 5 paintings Bernard Gussow was born in Russia in 1881. But by 1900 he’d made it to the Lower East Side, where he was described as an “East Side artist” in a New York Times article about …
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The Fastest Slow Guy You Know
“A blog about bicycles, Oakland, California, roads, trails, history.” By Morgan Fletcher. 🇺🇸Updated
'WORLD'S OLDEST ACTIVE COWBOY' TO MARK 94TH BIRTHDAY - Oakland Tribune - October 20, 1949 'WORLD'S OLDEST ACTIVE COWBOY' TO MARK 94TH BIRTHDAY Tom Wauhab Shuns His Rocking Chair Despite Great Age By BILL STROBEL SUNOL, Oct, 20. - When most pioneers pass the 75-year mark, society is content to …
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Georgia Before People
“I’m writing this blog because I’m fascinated with what the ecology of southeastern North America was before people colonized the region and ruined it.” By Mark Gelbart. 🇺🇸Updated
Pleistocene Hackberries (Celtis sp.) I’ve come across anecdotal evidence, suggesting hackberry trees were locally abundant during Ice Ages. Today, hackberry is a minor component of deciduous forests. I know of 3 sites dating to the Pleistocene where the remains …
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Images of Old Hawaiʻi
“Bringing People, Places, and Events in Hawaiʻi’s past alive through text and media.” 🇺🇸Updated
Declaratory Act The Stamp Act was passed by Parliament in 1765; effectively, it required the colonists to pay a tax, represented by a stamp. Included under the act were bonds, licenses, certificates, and other official documents as …
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Old Structures Engineering – Blog
“Engineering and Preservation.” 🇺🇸Updated
Don’t Be Fooled Another postcard from the Detroit Publishing Company, from 1903 or 1904, showing the Cathedral of St. John the Divine in Morningside Heights. Pretty, if your taste runs to incredibly large churches. There’s only one problem …
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San Francisco Bay Area Independent Media Center
“A non-commercial, democratic collective serving as the local organizing unit of the global IMC network.” 🇺🇸Updated
Saturday 4/15: Cesar Chavez Day of Service and Plant Sale Homeless Garden Project Farm 100-198 Shaffer Rd, Santa Cruz
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SCOTUSblog
“Devoted to covering the US Supreme Court comprehensively, without bias according to the highest journalistic standards as a public service.” 🇺🇸Updated
The IRS faces tough questioning from justices over privacy concerns in third-party summons dispute ShareOver several years, Remo Polselli racked up over $2 million in federal tax liabilities. After he made a partial payment from the account of one of his limited liability companies, the IRS suspected Remo might …
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Society for US Intellectual History
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USIH-IUPUI Community Scholars Spotlight: Rick Townsend Welcome to our inaugural group of USIH-IUPUI Community Scholars! In partnership with the Institute for American Thought at IUPUI, we are proud to host such a fantastic array of scholars Read more The post USIH-IUPUI …
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StreetsblogMASS
“Connecting people from all walks of life to information about how to reduce dependence on cars, promote human-centered, equitable, and environmentally sustainable places….” 🇺🇸Updated
The T’s ‘Fare Transformation’ Project Is Transforming Into A Boondoggle Since 2018, the MBTA has been under contract to replace the CharlieCard and introduce a new fare payment system for the region’s transit systems. But the project is far behind schedule, in spite of a …
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Washington Smoke Information
“We coordinate to collectively share info for Washington communities affected by wildfire smoke.” 🇺🇸Updated
So long 2022 wildfire smoke season: See you in 2023! We are happy, as many of you are as well, to see the smoke finally dissipate from Washington and close out this year's crazy season. Who knew our first wildfire of the season would start …
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West Seattle Blog
“News 24/7.” 🇺🇸Updated
WEST SEATTLE ART: New mural inside JaK’s Grill Jak’s Grill is revealing a new community-minded mural this Thursday, March 30th, 2023, 6PM at its 4548 California Avenue location. That depiction of an early-20th-century streetcar is at the heart of West Seattle’s newest mural, …
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