Lincoln

The Penny Gets a Makeover

Arts, Culture & Media

In this week’s show, Kurt says that we can find the Lincoln Memorial on the back of any old penny. Well, that old penny is getting a new backside. Last week, the United States Mint released a new one-cent coin, in honor of the bicentennial of Lincoln’s birth. While it still features his head on […]

The Power of the Pen(cil)

Arts, Culture & Media

Second inaugural addressess typically shorter, rarely well-remembered

Global Politics

Obama’s inauguration speech

Global Politics

Remembering the Immigrants who Fought in the US Civil War

Arts, Culture & Media

The Legacy of Frederick Douglass

The Civil War began 150 years ago today, tearing the nation apart, killing over half a million people, and making household names of men and women on both the union and confederate sides of the conflict. Among the most famous of those names: Frederick Douglass. Already a celebrated writer, orator, and abolitionist before the war, […]