The 20th Century – 1921 to 1930
It was the jazz age…flappers dancing the Charleston, bootleggers smuggling ’hootch’ into the country by boats and across the Canadian border. Eddie Cantor was [&hell...
Category: The United States
The 20th Century – 1911 to 1920
Immigrants from around the world had swarmed through the gates of Ellis Island and spread across the country to Baltimore, Chicago, and St. Louis...
The 20th Century – 1900 to 1911
1900 to 1910 It was a new century filled with unbridled expectations. The population of the United States had just passed 75 million of...
Political 3rd Party Foibles
From time to time throughout American history, third parties have popped up to represent a particular cause, or on behalf an individual who believed...
The National Debt
I Owe What? I just learned that my share of the national debt is nearly $100,000. Wait a minute. It could be more because...
Who Was Pete McCloskey?
And Why Do We Care? It was early 1972! President Richard Nixon and his team were feeling confident about the upcoming election. They were...
The American Dream
When the Second World War ended in 1945, America was forever changed. The fears of the Great Depression that had crippled the country for...
Shattered Trust
In June 1971 the relationship between the American people and its government changed dramatically. Today, 52 years later, the scars of that event remain...
Divisiveness
We grow despondent at the irrational divisiveness in our country… how did it ever get so bad. We are bombarded with the pros and [...