Posts by Gene Meyer
What You Missed: Schieffer, McDermott, Dionne et al
Or maybe the headline should read: Last Weekend’s News Tonight, or This Morning, or whenever you are reading it. And, what a weekend it was at the 6th annual Washington…
Read MoreExtra! Extra! Read all about it! Or read all about at least some of it.
I still read print newspapers–-three are delivered daily to our driveway—but I find today’s news overwhelming. Easier to retreat into the past, which on closer examination was also overwhelming to…
Read MoreFrederick Douglass “being recognized more and more”
As is now widely known, thanks to stories posted during Black History Month, 2018 represents the bicentennial year of the birth of Frederick Douglass, who escaped from slavery on Maryland’s…
Read MoreICYMI: And Some Shameless Self-Promotion
These have been a hectic few weeks, as we ramp up the long rollout of FIVE FOR FREEDOM: The African American Soldiers in John Brown’s Army. Its official publication date…
Read MoreLiterary Agents, Engaging Panels and You! Register Now.
Registration is open for the May 4-5 Washington Writers Conference. Don’t hit the pause button. Register now. Okay, this is an unpaid advertisement. Call it a PSA, call it whatever…
Read More“The Post” and the times
The movie of the moment seems to be “The Post,” a dramatic retelling of the weeks in June 1971 when the Washington Post raced to catch up with The New…
Read MoreOf Men and Memorials: The Strange Case of Haywood Shepherd
Of all the monuments and memorials erected to the Lost Cause of the Confederacy, there may be none more misleading nor more ironic than a stone sidewalk tablet inconspicuously located…
Read MoreStamped Out! But, oh, what memories.
Normally, I would not be blogging about an article I’ve written that was published elsewhere which could just as well have been, well, a blog. But, here I am doing…
Read MoreLeaked to? Or obtained by? It matters which.
The currently oft-used phrase “leaked to” seems to have largely replaced “obtained by” in the discussion of documents public officials would rather keep under wraps but that surface anyway in…
Read MoreFIVE FOR FREEDOM: We Pause for An Announcement
I first met Osborne Perry Anderson nearly 17 years ago. At the time, he had been dead for 128 years. Not only dead and gone but forgotten, even though he…
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