Forgotten Missouri: What the Books Don’t Tell About Black History
On Good Friday, April 13th, 1906, the sheriff’s wife falsely accused two black men of rape. The next day, over 6,000 people watched as Horace B. Duncan and Fred Coker were hanged and burned in the Public Square. The mob returned to the jail, grabbed another black man, set up a mock trial and repeated the atrocity. By Easter Sunday, hundreds of blacks had abandoned their businesses, homes, properties, farmlands and livestock…
One in Eleven Odds: The Deadly Risk of Being U.S. President
Despite top notch 24-hour security, being the president of the United States is one of the most dangerous jobs in the world! Medical doctor and writer George Burden takes a close look at the deadly odds.
The Re-(e)volution of Chivalry
The word chivalry has come to have many different meanings over the course of history. Its definition seemed greatly varied in written texts depending on the authors of the time, thus making its true meaning very elusive. Derived from the French … Read more →
No Life as a Human: How the Earth Reclaims The Wild
Writer and photographer Chris Holt comes upon an abandoned homestead on an island and ponders how easily nature can erase human life to reclaim the wild.
A Musical Mystery Tour of Italy
A musically themed tour of Italy where a family doctor rediscovers his “dead” cousin, attempts to find out if his heirloom violin is a priceless Rocca, and takes in an opera at the world famous La Scala in Milan.
Ghosts of Gallipoli — The Meaning Behind Anzac Day
On April 25 each year, Australia pays homage on Anzac Day to its sons killed in war at Gallipoli. Vincent Ross recalls travelling to the land where so many thousands of Australians, New Zealanders, Turks, Brits, French, Indians and Canadians met their death because they were landed on an impossible stretch of coastline, the tragic casualties of British imperialism.
War Story
I never went to the war. Sometimes I think I missed something very important. Like the ripples on the pond echoing down the years, there seems to be no missing anything. All it takes is time.
Wilderness Canoeing, Tent Dwellers’ Style
Life As A Human is pleased to present another adventure in Sandra’s Phinney’s travel and exploration series, Travelling Thoughts. This time she goes into “the deep unknown” in the wilds of Nova Scotia, following the footsteps of Mark Twain’s biographer and a military spy.
The Magic of Maps
While today we may see maps as definitive and even scientific, Nathan Thompson reveals that the way mapmakers define the world is as much driven by imagination and even love as by measurement.
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