The last time there was a serious discussion about poverty in America was during the presidential campaign of 2008 when former United States...
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Dr. Marilyn K. Howard earned her PhD in American history from The Ohio State University (Dissertation: Black Lynching in the Promised Land: Mob Violence in Ohio 1876 - 1916). She is an associate professor in the Department of Humanities at Columbus State Community College. She has published essays in a number of anthologies, including the Encyclopedia of Racial Violence in America and the Encyclopedia of Jim Crow. She continues to conduct research on the lynching of black men by white mobs in Ohio.
Articles by Author
28 January 2016
My wonderful, wonderful mother died on November 30, 2013, after a long battle with leukemia. One of the things I miss the most is her voice, which was...
12 January 2016
Many years ago I dated a man who made lists for virtually everything. He even had the five- and ten-year plans all the business books of the era were...
03 July 2015
I have been fascinated by Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis since I was a young girl. This fascination at times has spilled over on other...
26 April 2015
As someone who has a master’s degree in political science, I am somewhat embarrassed
to say that my first reaction to the congressional hearings on Watergate...
09 April 2015
It happened on August 29, 1786. Protestors, many of whom were veterans of the Revolutionary War, were angry about the distressed economic...