Significant Documents Of Human History
As man has evolved through the millennium, he has searched for ways to live in diverse communities with tolerance and equanimity. We continue to...
Category: The United States
Ancient Mounds
Most of us have a very limited knowledge of North American history. This ‘New World’ was discovered by Columbus in 1492, and he found [&h...
Remembering Y2K
It’s time for a historic non-event. What better than the dire warnings and near-panic as we approached the end of the 20th century. An [...
Old Time Radio
“We have nothing to fear but fear itself!” It was early 1933. Unemployment had soared. Men, once wealthy, now penniless, jumped from buildings. Banks [&h...
The Red Scare & McCarthyism
The euphoria that surrounded V-E and V-J days in the spring and summer of 1945 was short-lived but great while it lasted. General Motors...
Separate but Equal – Homer Plessy
You should have known Homer…he was a special young man, born just as the Civil War was ending. He had never been a slave, [...
Aaron Burr
The musical Hamilton introduced theatregoers to Aaron Burr, the man who killed Alexander Hamilton in a duel in 1804. But Burr’s place in history [...
Affirmative Action
Affirmative action policies ask colleges and universities to help correct society’s failures in dealing with racial disparities. Most of us can agree that decent [...
The Four Freedoms
In January 1941 Europe was already at war. Germany armies were spreading across Europe and into Russia. Japan was swallowing up the Dutch East...
Social Security
Social Security was never intended to FINANCE us in our ‘golden’ years…it was intended to SUPPLEMENT our retirement income…to provide a safety net. But [&helli...