That Look When You Know How To Cause Trouble

I like to blog about the dark side of history and our penchant for violence in defense of our freedom – blood watering the tree of liberty and all that. See, my series on ancient history (before Magna Carta, the first document to guarantee the right to jury trial) when all disputes were resolved on a battlefield […]

A Companion To Carl Sandburg’s ‘I Am The People, The Mob’

The Porteous Riot: Scotland, 1736: a smuggler’s mob “…we should pass over all biographies of ‘the good and the great,’ while we search carefully the slight records of wretches who died in prison, in Bedlam, or upon the gallows.” ~Edgar Allan Poe For the Carl Sandburg weekly blog, click here.