With Halloween right around the corner, we are getting our costumes ready, carving our pumpkins and, of course, preparing to show up at our Halloween parties armed with historical knowledge about the holiday. Case in point: here's what to know about the medieval Christian origins of trick-or-treating. As it turns out, that candy-fueled custom can be traced back to a tradition that was believed to affect a soul's fate in the afterlife.
“His work habits are abominable. He is busiest when the sky over the city is a grey suspicion of dawn, the hour when streetwalkers quit, grifters count their take, and busted junkies begin to jitter with the inside sweats. He is a loner, but his world is filled with friends. He knows the cop with the abused arches, the complaisant heiress, the slick saloon proprietor, the sick comic, the sullen stoolie who talks in the guarded whisper of cell block and exercise yard. He is furiously honest, but he can spot a rigged wheel with a sharper's skill. He is hard-muscled, handsome, handy with a snub-nosed, 38, and his hide is as tough as the bluing on a pistol barrel. Decent, disillusioned and altogether incredible, he is a soap opera Superman. He is television's ‘Private Eye.’” (Oct. 26, 1959)
“The Battle of Russia had become in tensely personal to Joseph Stalin. His own life, which he had so zealously guarded with such alphabetical horrors as OGPU and NKVD, was endangered now by a horror called TNT. His own three rooms in the Kremlin were threatened: on seven occasions within a week bombs had fallen inside the old fort. But Joseph Stalin could not let this immediacy dazzle his eyes and stop his mind. He had to chop his way out of a thicket of decisions—about Moscow's de fense, about moving the Government to old Samara, now called Kuibyshev, about defending the Donets Basin, about the Volga, the Urals, the Far East, about Russia's present and Russia's future." (Oct. 27, 1941)
“What makes a good school? There are no stock answers, like wardrobe or testing or size. But there are some universal truths. A good school is a community of parents, teachers and students. A good school, like a good class, is run by someone with vision, passion and compassion. A good school has teachers who still enjoy the challenge, no matter what their age or experience. A good school prepares its students not just for the SATs or ACTs but also for the world out there.” (Oct. 27, 1997)
Look it up This Tim Carmody post at Kottke.org examines how the concept of card catalogs influenced the modern way of thinking.
Frankly At Slate, Aisha Harris looks at the evolving way that Gone With the Wind—still one of the most acclaimed and beloved films in American cinematic history—is being presented in theaters and classrooms around the nation.
Nazis in Hollywood Historian Steven J. Ross writes for the Washington Post about the remarkable story of Georg Gyssling, who was dispatched to L.A. by Hitler’s Nazi government but ended up a double-agent who passed information the U.S. side.
“They were kept back” Rep. John Lewis spoke in Washington, D.C., about how he believes that women have been discriminated against within the civil-rights movement, reports Darren Sands of BuzzFeed.
Capital Ideas The surprising link between the Civil War and Karl Marx gets the JSTOR Daily treatment from Matthew Wills.
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