Blogs about United States of America

Well, in New Orleans, anyway. My son Amos alerted me to this item, which he found on Reddit, whatever that is.Of course, I immediately began searching for more information. This item does appear in the …

Reva Siegel and Mary Ziegler We have just posted a revised draft of Comstockery, the first legal history of the Comstock Act since antiabortion lawyers have attempted to transform it into a de facto national …

Happy Friday and Welcome back to The Shed. Retired bike shop co-owner and BikeLoud PDX Board Member Eva Frazier and I (BikePortland Publisher & Editor Jonathan Maus) had a wonderful chat and I can’t wait …

Off-continent after 446 days!

Arrow level boarding platformsat San Bernardino, CAComments to old posts on this blog are stored in a moderation queue that your author doesn't visit often enough. Over a year ago, commenter jpk122s discovered quite a …

Although the city’s newspapers regularly cited unsafe conditions on the city’s streetcars , the trolleys were popular and heavily used by Cincinnati’s commuters. The hilltop neighborhoods would not have developed without mass transit. Even so, …

Someone posted this in a comment on my "sleepy seaside town" post, but this rant goes so hard that I think it deserves its own post:

What kind of block was East 63rd Street between Second and Third Avenues in the first half of the 20th century? Like so many other streets hemmed in by elevated trains and relatively close to …

THE PERALTA CLAIM. The Land Commissioners will decide on the merits of the Peralta claim this morning. The Chronicle says that this is one of the most important claims that has come before the Commissioners …

Eastern cottonwood trees rapidly grow to an enormous size. They reach heights of over 100 feet tall with diameters over 9 feet thick. The U.S. national champion in Beatrice, Nebraska is 89 feet tall and …

Points have been deducted from my lifetime hosting score because of my penchant for trying out new recipes on guests. Fortunately very few of them have been complete disasters, and with enough wine and a …

Eight regional employers – universities, non-profits, and private companies – competed this spring to see who could get the largest share of their employees riding transit. As the organizers of this first-of-its-kind competition in the …

Postal services in Hilo commenced in 1858. However, when the Hawaiian Islands became a territory of the US in 1900, officials determined that both postal and court facilities should be expanded to better serve the …

380 Broadway has architecture above its station. It was built in 1860 with retail space at the base and loft space above, but it’s got that grand marble-veneer facade on the upper floors and some …

I can’t tell you how many RFK/worm posts I just skipped right past before I realized that everyone and their mother was posting about it. I decided I should look into it, but I thought …

Macquiddy Elementary, Watsonville (dirt road behind school-entrance near 95 Wagner Avenue)

ShareEach weekday, we select a short list of news articles, commentary, and other noteworthy links related to the Supreme Court. Here’s the Friday morning read: Supreme Court rebuffs challenge to consumer protection agency (Lawrence Hurley, …

I can understand why some readers and academic reviewers might fear an overabundance of presentism in Resistance from the Right. Too many books—even academic ones—covering politics and political history have Read more The post The …

After years of advocacy and planning, the Board of NYC’s Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) recently approved the city’s congestion pricing program, which will start on June 30 and help the city finance major upgrades to …

Every day, The Overhead Wire collects news about cities and sends the links to their email list. At the end of the week they take some of the most popular stories and post them to …