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These are ‘Portraits of African American ex-slaves from the U.S. Works Progress Administration, Federal Writers Project slave narratives collections’ at the US Library of Congress. The collection is also labelled: ‘Born in slavery, slave narratives from...

by Frederick Grant On December 25, 1065, King Edward the Confessor presided over a spectacular Christmas banquet at his palace on Thorney Island in the Thames River, just two miles upstream from London. The king was an old man, white bearded and frail...

Some of the Internet’s finest developments revolve around hip hop. One of my favorite examples is the discovery of the date of Ice Cube’s “Good Day” (January 20th, 1992). Better still is the website-cum-app WhoSampled, one of the web’s finest wikis,...

Today is the birthday of radio and screen comedian and voice-over artist Harold “Hal” Peary (1908-1985) Peary is best known for creating the popular radio character Throckmorton Gildersleeve on the Fibber McGee and Molly Show in 1939. The big blowhard...

For all readers of DarwinCatholic fiction, here's a small present: the Midnight Mass section from Profiles in String, cleaned up from its initial NaNo posting. **** In this quiet way Christmas approached. I put out Emma’s old Advent wreath, and she...