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Here s what happened this week in history

A collection of the interesting and sometimes unusual events that happened this week in Arizona history.June 12On this date in 1888, an Apache Indian who had fired one shot that killed two men was tried for murder in one of the deaths and acquitted. He later was tried again for the murder of the second man and convicted on precisely the same set of facts.On this date in

Death of the Sweet Waters: The Politics of Pollution

Death of the Sweet Waters: The Politics of Pollution
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Van Ens: Live as if your life spirals upward

America’s sweetheart, Judy Garland, interjected a wistful tone when singing “Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas” in the 1944 hit screen musical, “Meet Me in St. Louis.” She longed for a better day. Garland sang…

The VERY scandalous life of American society is revealed in a new book

Michael Knox Beran s WASPS: The Splendors and Miseries of an American Aristocracy explores the scandal s of US society exploring figures including Francis Sedgwick and Babe Paley

How the WASPs won by losing

Outside a few holiday resorts, authentic WASPs have mostly disappeared from view. Since Gilligan s Island introduced Thurston Howell III, most Americans know them only as comic figures in brightly colored holiday attire.  In his perceptive new book, WASPS: The Splendors and Miseries of an American Aristocracy, Michael Knox Beran shows that this caricature is deceiving. The WASPs  legacy is still with us even though their accents and rituals have become punchlines. They may have lost much of their privilege and cohesion, but their creations  including the administrative state, elite education, and charitable foundations  remain dominant influences on American life. The term WASP was never quite accurate. This strand of the American elite was uniformly white, but not Anglo; Dutch, French, and sometimes more exotic blood flowed through its veins. Its members were mostly Protestants, but some were not. And the vast majority of American Protestants did not belong to

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