A blog and newsletter published in tandem with the Before We Were White history podcast
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Revenge of the Weird* Kids
I’ve written at length elsewhere about “Hillbilly Elegy”, J. D. Vance’s work of Libertarian propaganda smuggled into a book pretending to be a memoir.
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A Late Goodbye
The death of Dolly Parton nearly broke the internet this week.
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This near-universal outpouring o...
New Amsterdam and the...Melungeons?
The Before We Were White blog, newsletter, and podcast project began to take shape a few years ago when I began to put together a family tree for our young son, who wanted to know more after I told him my grandfather was said to have been a...
Reading the Signs
Read the words on the historical marker shown above.
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For many years now, I’ve written about the...
Galveston
Galveston, oh Galveston
Wonder if she could forget me
I’d go home if they would let me
Put down this gun
And go to Galveston...
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