Author: Greg’s Business History

• March 4, 2025

  Bread and Roses

  Deep knowledge,everyday.Like,comment and follow : Greg’s Business History.Happy Reading.Thanks.
• March 1, 2025

  An 1692 Love Story

  Sometimes a story from long ago can show the love between a man and a woman, something like the way an ember from a blazing fire can still glow in the night. This story involves Captain Nathaniel Cary and his wife, Elizabeth. They were married in 1666 when she was 16 and he was 21. ​He became a ship captain…
• February 24, 2025

  Working Through Suicidal Thoughts

  It’s likely that a sizable fraction of people reading this have had suicidal thoughts. That doesn’t mean you are weird or have a mental problem. It means that at some point, things just no longer made sense. Resigning from life may seem to make sense.  ​It’s been a while since I was a young man. When I was, Iwas smart,…
• February 18, 2025

  HELLO WORLD We’re Back!We’re back! After more than a year of not posting anything on this site, we’re back. We (Greg and Barbara) have had a tough year, but we have gotten our lives together and our partnership goals include making the site lively and we hope, helpful.What we intend to do in the coming months is post at least one…
• February 8, 2025

  Animals That Spit at You

  ​There was a time when, in the American West at least, thatbars and saloons had what were called spittoons, containers on the floor for patrons to spit into. Chewing tobacco was widespread then, a century and more ago. People who chewed tobacco, mostly men, chewed and spit. The spittoons were preferable to a slimy brown floor. That…
• August 17, 2023

  Ida B. Wells: Black American Journalist and Freedom Fighter

  Ida Wells was born into slavery in 1862 in Mississippi. After emancipation, her parents were active in Reconstruction politics. The family became prosperous enough for her father, James Wells, tofound Shaw University (now known as Rust College) in 1866, which still exists and is still educating African American students. A yellow fever epidemic killed her…