Ghost stories: understanding a present haunted by the past
A 91¸£ÀûÉç poet considers the socioeconomic and political environment of the turn of the 20th century through the history of her own family
Mud, Blood, and Ghosts is not a typical history book.
To write it, Julie Carr delved not just into archives and manuscripts, but also into —specifically, the story of her great-grandfather Omer Kem, a People’s Party politician who served three terms in the U.S. House of Representatives representing Nebraska between 1891 and 1897. Kem’s story weaves everythi