Tag: Jim

The story of Jim Thompson is still talked about today over 50 years after his disappearance. He was known as a person who single-handedly reawakened the Thai silk trade in the 1950s. Jim Thompson House Museum in Krung Thep Maha Nakhon (Bangkok) is still open today and celebrates the lif...

Up until recently, Jim Harbaugh was the highest-paid college football coach. Now he’s top 3. But it’s not just because of his generous salary. The genius part is how his life insurance creates income at a level many times what Michigan is paying for it. Photo by OliverCardall via ...

New Haven itself is a crime scene, the site of historic and continuing racism, segregation, and social inequality.” So wrote a scholar of the city at the turn of the twenty-first century. This observation links America’s segregated past to its nominally desegregated present: an...

One component of reparations is that the truth about these crimes of the past should be publicly proclaimed, with things such as museums dedicated to this purpose and other means as well. The truth would include a historically accurate description of the crimes in all their horribleness, an account ...

His time away from school didn’t lessen Thorpe’s athletic prowess. He started as a walk-on for the school’s track and field team, impressing coach Pop Warner. He tried out for football and was a natural at the sport. He was even named All-American three times and played several pos...

The nation and much of the world is reeling from the horrific and unsettling events that have occurred between Israel and Hamas over the past several days, in addition to still being preoccupied with the war in the Ukraine. Now there is the possibility that the federal government may shut down in 35...