Month: June 2018
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War as a Tonic for Jaded Feminine Nerves
WWI caused a marked declined in women’s slouching — a change which some doctors attributed to the war itself. Said Dr. Eugene L. Fisk, director of the Life Extension Institute in June 1918: The most gratifying physical change in women is in their posture. Time was, not so far distant, when the clouch was a […]
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Echoes in Lighter Tone from Washington
Should we be referring to WWI as the stenographers’ war? That’s what one article in 1918 predicted that “future historians” might call it: And, hurrah, here come the stenographers! They are here from multi-storied city skyscrapers and from country lawyers’ offices; from business colleges and from just-learned-it-by-myself; calm, self-possessed, clear-eyed; helpers of detail — helpless […]
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U-Boats Off Shore!
Franklin D. Roosevelt… assistant secretary of the navy? Many people — or perhaps even most people — today don’t even remember what position FDR held right before his presidency: governor of New York. But virtually nobody remembers what position he held even before that: assistant secretary of the Navy. FDR held the #2 spot in […]
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My column in the Daily Beast: “Not Much Passes the 100-Year Test. Will Trump?”
In my time running SundayMagazine.org, it’s become increasingly apparent to me and my readers just how few of the most prominent people, places, and things from 100 years ago are still well remembered tgoday. What does this insight reveal about who and what from this era might still be well remembered 100 years from now? My prediction: despite how […]
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