Posts Tagged ‘John Brown’
166 years later, John Brown’s soul goes marching on.
One hundred and sixty-six years ago this weekend, abolitionist John Brown led a small band of 18 men to the federal arsenal town of Harpers Ferry at the confluence of…
Read More“Pioneers of the Press”
Pioneers of the Press. A book–and a legacy to honor and uphold Sixty-five years ago, my father Gerard Previn Meyer wrote a book called “Pioneers of the Press.” The publisher…
Read More“The Winds of Doctrine”
The Sunday Bulletin‘s editorial on Math 6, 1966 was carefully crafted. Headlined “The Winds of Doctrine,” it introduced a ten-part series “The Left and The Right — A View from…
Read MoreAnd then there were none
The formerly local Washington Post… Say it ain’t so! But, sadly, the Washington Post‘s wonderful Petula Dvorak has just published her final Metro column. In it she recounts several of…
Read MoreRighting a Wrong in Harpers Ferry
In recent long-delayed acknowledgement of our own dark past, many Confederate monuments have been taken down throughout the South and in border states. Though there are some resisters (“fine people…
Read MoreThe shrinking local news landscape… and much more!
For many of my former Washington Post colleagues and, apparently, for many DC-area readers, the reductions in local coverage and locally-based correspondents have been more than disheartening. The newspaper we…
Read MoreJuneteenth: A Time to Read and Reflect
Juneteenth – June 19th — became a federal holiday in 2021. It marks the date in 1865 when the enslaved people in Texas were officially informed of their freedom 2…
Read MoreThe Goldene Medina, Anti-Semitism, and Me
Regular readers of this blog may know that I am the editor of B’nai B’rith Magazine, an eclectic Jewish publication I’ve helmed since December 2009. Our cover stories have ranged…
Read MoreIn February 1859, A Fateful Meeting on the Road to Harpers Ferry
February looms large in the story of Five for Freedom: The African American Soldiers in John Brown’s Army, my contribution to the canon of the famous abolitionist who led 18…
Read More“Bigger than Watergate”
“Bigger than Watergate!” The Watergate scandal and the Washington Post reporting (thanks. Bob and Carl) that brought down a president seemed like the apex of journalistic enterprise and achievement in…
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