Note: July has been Local History Month here on Sistory! Check out previous dispatches from Cambridge, Massachussetts.; Centre County, Pennsylvania; Auburn, Alabama and Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania. …
Punxsutawney Phil, the Real O.G. (Original Groundhog)
Note: We’re digging in to local history stories this month on Sistory. So far we’ve explored our current homes, chasing mysterious candy factories in Cambridge, Massachussetts.; a once-in-a-lifetime combined Steelers-Eagles football team in Centre County, Pennsylvania; and toilet paper traditions in Auburn, Alabama.
The Greatest Sports Movie Never Made
Note: Last week, we kicked off Local History Month on Sistory – exploring the places closest to us. If you…
How Many Licks Does it Take to Get to the Center of a Tootsie Pop Mystery?
Note: We’re making July Local History Month on Sistory! There are so many stories in our own backyards, and we’re…
Float like a butterfly, sting like a WASP
How’s your Friday going? Okay so far? Got a fresh cup of coffee, optimistic about the weekend, ready to crank…
Nikola Tesla’s Sophomore Slump
Everyone knows Nikola Tesla was a futuristic, visionary inventor and an electrical engineering genius. He worked for Thomas Edison and…
Squad Goals: Marian Anderson and Eleanor Roosevelt
in 1939, singer Marian Anderson was taking the world by storm. But the Daughters of the American Revolution prohibited her from using Constitution Hall for a concert. First Lady Eleanor “One Badass Bitch Out of Hell” Roosevelt took matters into her own hands.
Frontier Tears: Could I have made it as a pioneer?
Like many before me, my love affair with the American frontier started when I read Laura Ingalls Wilder’s Little House…
Re-Introducing America to Americans
When I was a senior in college, my thesis class got into a discussion about propaganda. Most Political Communication majors…
We Want a Pitcher, Not an Hourglass Figure
There is one female baseball star whose name has made it into the history books for an astonishing feat: 17-year-old Jackie Mitchell, who legendarily struck out both Lou Gehrig and Babe Ruth, one after the other.
Mama Said There’d Be Reigns Like These
Welcome to this week’s special Mother’s Day edition of Sistory. Since our mother raised us to be independent, self-sufficient, and…
The Star Shmangled Banner
“National melodies are the nursery songs of a people, heard in the dimly recollected days of its infancy, lingering in its…
Go West, Young (White) Man!
Let’s talk about Oregon. You know Oregon…the hipster’s paradise, where great coffee is served in eco-friendly cups and everyone…
Diamonds on My Neck, Ice on My Boat: The Frederic Tudor Story
Nicknames are one of my favorite things in history, whether calling the teetotaling President Rutherford B. Hayes “Old Granny,” or…
Girls Have Cooties, and Other American Political Myths
When I was a third grader, I boldly stated that I wanted to be the first female president. I think what I really wanted was to be the first female anything. I learned quickly that the disadvantages of being a woman were many (and I didn’t even know about periods, the wage gap, the glass ceiling or work-life balance yet.)
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