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News No Comments A University of Arkansas at Little Rock professor has taken his research into Reconstruction history to new heights with the launch of a graphic history book that he hopes will be the first in a series on racial history and justice in the United States. Dr. Brian Mitchell, assistant professor of history at UA Little Rock, wrote the manuscript for “Monumental: Oscar Dunn and His Radical Fight in Reconstruction Louisiana” four years ago. He worked with Nick Weldon, an editor, and Barrington Edwards, an illustrator, to bring Dunn’s story to life in the 256-page book. “I...

Here's how you can Ice your friends in Toronto for Valentine's Day Stay in the loop Sign up for our free email newsletter. Unsubscribe anytime or contact us for details. Remember "getting Iced"? The trend is by no means new at this point, but it's an unexpectedly good physically distanced prank, and one gift company is using that to their advantage this Valentine's Day. Present Day Gifts makes curated gift boxes, and their Valentine's Day offering is unlike any other this year: a box containing a single Smirnoff Ice, your choice of rose petals or confetti, and a note tell...

2020 saw two books by Survey team members appear in print. The Oxford handbook of English grammar, edited by Bas Aarts, Jill Bowie and Gergana Popova, provides a wide-ranging and authoritative critical survey of current knowledge of the grammar of the English language, and competing research methodologies that may be applied to it. Sean Wallis’s monograph Statistics in Corpus Linguistics Research focuses on a single perspective. Whereas ‘statistics’ is frequently ass...

It’s a sad day. It’s a sad day because more than 74 million people who voted for Donald Trump will no longer have a voice in the U.S. government. Most of us voted for Trump because the Republican and Democrat parties had disregarded our views and ignored us for far too long. Like many who voted for Trump, I don’t trust politicians, and I hold the Washington autocracy and bureaucracy in contempt. Like many, Trump wasn’t my first choice. But I came around to like his blunt, sometimes disrespectful view of the Washington crowd. More important, I look back at what Trump, despite overwhelm...

Our last day of assured Freedom Smaug: I am almost tempted to let you take it, if only to see Oakenshield suffer, watch it destroy him, watch it corrupt his heart and drive him mad The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug 2013 I’m been in COVID quarantine for a little over a week and have taken advantage of this time to not only get my 3rd season of Dynasty All time Great league going (Opening day is Friday if you’re interested in joining although a few have gotten games in early) and also took the time to re-watch the entire five seasons of Maverick (1957-1962), the one season of Bre...