Tag archives for history
Their Finest Hour
Winston Churchill's speech of June 18, 1940, is generally referred to now as "Their Finest…
from Thomas Paine To the Honorable Henry Laurens September 14, 1779
In other words Thomas Paine writes to Henry Laurens that his patriotism is spun from…
the Judiciary Act of 1869
Yesterday I learned that the original configuration of the United States Supreme Court had an…
Who Died and Made You Supreme Court Justice?
Back in the last days of Newsweek as a serious periodical delivering substantial news and…
unchecked chauvinism and nationalism
Since Donald Trump entered the Presidential race way back in 2015 and deliberately tilted his…
Brad Torgersen on THE SEVENTIES
Regarding who was President at the time: My wife and I watched some of that…
Abandon the Western Traditions At Our Peril
Cultural evolution is an outcome of thinking humans yet to an extent we take that…
Robert Smalls by Ken Raymond
to quote Ken Raymond On this day in history, April 5, 1839, Republican Congressman Robert…
Dwight Eisenhower Farewell Address
President Dwight D. Eisenhower is remembered, for among other things obviously, warning about the dangers…
Medieval Water
Some might ask if people drank water in the Middle Ages. That seems like a…