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  • churchill-V.jpg V was for Victory by KCan
    Most Americans already know what the “V” symbolized back then. The two-finger salute, whether held aloft by Winston Churchill or newsreel GIs, has become an icon in films, folklore, and even on billboards. In fact, as popular culture has come to depict World War II, not only did V stand for victory,...
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  • treetoon.JPG American Parks by SageParsley
    Humans have an affinity towards the monumental. We seek to erect (and examine) massive mileposts that mark the ostensibly forward progress of civilization: the Pyramids, the Great Wall of China, Europe’s many castles, the massive obelisk called the Washington Monument . Such landmarks allow human cultures...
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  • indiansurv.jpg Indian Survival by droogie
    Of all the books and articles I have read during my history studies, nothing hit me on such a gut level, with such a visceral reaction, as the accounts of California Indians and the atrocities they faced at the hands of (mostly) Anglo-American interlopers. Somehow, the fact that such genocidal activity...
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