This is a recent post from my blog about Ohio’s 8th Congressional District where I live — and my observations on the State of The Union address.
Blue In The Red Zone
- Tea Party Speaker Touts ‘Schools Are Liberal And Evil’ Message In My Conservative, Rural Town
- ‘Appalachia’ By Catte Is A Perfect Antidote For ‘Hillbilly Elegy’
- ‘Evicted’ Describes What It’s Like To Be Poor, Vulnerable
- Heroin(e) Tells Story Of Three Outliers Making A Difference In Opioid Epidemic
- ‘Get A Job’ A Familiar Phrase Of The Politically Lazy
- So A Drop In Farm Land Values Nets 14 Percent Increase In My Property Tax Bill?
- ‘Godfather Of Modern Popular Gay Fiction’ Graduated From My Local, Rural High School
- America’s Political Dysfunction Called A Security Concern
- Is Ohio A Cesspool Of Hate, Fear And Ignorance?
- Posting, Sharing Facebook Memes Not Solving Any Problems
Old Newspapers
- May News from the Library of Congress
- Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers: Announcing May 24 Webinar--History Unfolded: Online Research Sprint
- Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers: Announcing May 10 Webinar--The United States Civil War: The Atlanta Campaign
- April News from the Library of Congress
- March News from the Library of Congress
- Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers: Massachusetts Newspapers Now Available
- February News from the Library of Congress
- Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers: Announcing Two Interactive Dataset Tools
- Join the Friends of the Library of Congress!
- December News from the Library of Congress
Top Posts & Pages
National Archives
- Archives Under the Sea: Shipwrecks at NARA
- Facial Hair Friday: Who is Alex Trebek?
- Pandemic Nursing: The 1918 Influenza Outbreak
- Historic Staff Spotlight: John Mendelsohn
- National Archives Heritage Baby
- Facial Hair Friday: The Original Adlai E. Stevenson
- Historic Spotlight: Budge Weidman
- The Slow Vanishing of Mao Zedong
- Unsung Heroes of World War I: The Carrier Pigeons
- Ceremonial First Pitches
Charlie R. Claywell 