Recalling Stewart's Department Store Amidst a Fourth Street Revival
One afternoon last week I was pleased to see that a chain link fence has been erected around the old Stewart’s department store building at the corner of Fourth Street and Muhammad Ali Boulevard. Once...
View ArticleLouisville's Suzy Post: At the Gates of Freedom
Not long ago, we marked the 50th anniversary of the 1963 March on Washington, that seminal moment when the eyes of the nation focused on 250,000 demonstrators in Washington, D.C., and where Martin...
View ArticleKentucky's Intersection of Religion, Energy and the Environment
Most of the snow from a string of storms over the past week had evaporated in Nelson County, Ky., Tuesday afternoon when more than 60 concerned people, many of them Roman Catholic nuns, gathered on the...
View ArticleArt Is Not a Luxury: 'Parkland Rising' Mural Project Caught in Political...
An election mailer sent by Metro Council District 1 candidate Jessica Green this week took her opponent in Tuesday’s primary election, incumbent Attica Scott, to task over a public art project in the...
View ArticleThe Role Moderate Republicans, Including Kentuckians, Played in the Civil...
Some will remember the dramatic scenes in Steven Spielberg’s “Lincoln” in which the House of Representatives, under pressure from Abraham Lincoln, debates, and then passes, the 13th Amendment to the...
View ArticleCommentary: With Nixon's Resignation, an Era of Division Began
Forty years ago, on August 8, 1974, Richard Nixon appeared on national television to announce that the following day he would resign, the first and so far the only American president to do so. For...
View ArticleCommentary: When Washington was Our American City
I read with interest, and a good bit of sadness, the story in The New York Times this week about the decline of the U.S. Senate Dining Room, apparently yet another victim of the noxious partisanship in...
View ArticleRevisiting The New Yorker's 1974 Examination of Louisville, a 'City in...
“City in Transition” is the title that The New Yorker gave its lengthy story about Louisville in the Sept. 9, 1974, issue. Yes – 1974 not 2014. That was only 40 years ago, but it is still relevant...
View ArticleCelebrating the History Surrounding the Belle of Louisville
Beginning on Tuesday, Louisville will see the largest collection of passenger steamships gathered at its wharf in many years. The Festival of Steamboats, which continues through Oct. 19, is the city’s...
View ArticlePining From Louisville to Have Seen the World's Innovations at the World's Fairs
It has been a half century since the last truly “great” world’s fair was held in the Flushing Meadows section of New York City near LaGuardia Airport. And for most Americans alive today, the grand...
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