Mark Stoneman

Independent Historian / Freelance Editor and Translator

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Year: 2021

  • Lithograph of crowds lining up to get their letters and newspapers at the post office on Pike and Clay Streets in San Francisco, California, ca. 1850. The news comes in another form too: conversation and rumors.

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    Getting the News
  • My occasional pandemic nightmares used to scare me, but lately their pattern has become easy to recognize while sleeping. This change led me to a recording on YouTube of “The Thrill is Gone” by Roy Hawkins.

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  • Link to reflections by Emily Delaney on how we’re expecting way too much of our afternoon walks in this pandemic.

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  • Quotation: the Washington Post on the White House’s display of paralysis on January 6.

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