Deeper truths for young adults
Young America Post #7 “Make everything as simple as possible,” said Albert Einstein, “but not simpler.” We like to think of the American revolution as having been caused by King George III’s antagonistic policies, particularly with respect to taxation. Then one thing led to another and pretty soon, BOOM! That’s simple. But too simple. The …
Food and disease were the two biggest life-issues in the 1790s, bigger than concepts of liberty and more significant than war.
Public Sanitation in Colonial America and Beyond Young America Post #3 In the mid-1980’s while teaching graduate students in Amsterdam, I was taking a walk with a colleague one day when he stepped in something squishy. It turned out to be an artifact left on the sidewalk by a local dog. But the dog was …
Young America Post #2 The first thing I noticed were the icicles hanging from the roof of what looked like your everyday gazebo in the local park. Then I noticed ice on the dirt all around the base of the little structure. Then––how could I not have seen this first?––the ladies, seemingly dressed in every …