Labor Vs. Capitol Records

In our family, our dad always gets all the credit for coming from a place with powerful music history. He … More

The Past is Female Too: Holy Mother Edition

It’s a mother of a season. Well, rather, it’s a season celebrating mothers – particularly a Biblically famous teenage mother – and we’re here for it. Moms rule. We’ve already written about some of history’s best royal momagers, but here are five more mothers you ought to know about.

It’s a Bird, It’s a Train, It’s a Common Misconception

If you were invited to see some newfangled technology and instead saw a train approaching you at full speed, would you wait to make sure it was just a movie – a concept you were heretofore unfamiliar with? Or would you bail first and ask questions later?

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.