American children are taught in grade school that the Pilgrims came to North America seeking religious freedom. In actuality, they had disembarked for America
Category: History
The Redemption of Robert Byrd and What Biden Could Learn
In his autobiography Robert C. Byrd: Child of the Appalachian Coalfields he said “I know now I was wrong. Intolerance had no place in America. I apologized a thousand times … and I don’t mind apologizing over and over again.”
Bill Proxmire and the Art of Fundraising
Proxmire in the elections where he eschewed campaign donations was still re-elected by large margins, 29 points in 1982 and 46 points in 1976.
Abortion: as old as pregnancy itself
One of the most contentious and emotionally charged issues in American politics today is the issue of abortion and a woman’s right to choose.
On hearing “The Darktown Strutters’ Ball” in Montgomery, Alabama
Visiting Montgomery, Alabama to see the civil rights sites, we walked over to the old train station along the riverfront. Inside what appears to
In defense of Trump, and 5th Grade Students
From the very beginning, Donald Trump has had difficulty understanding that the Justice Department is not like every other cabinet office. He does not have unilateral control of it. The Justice Department can bite back at him, and he doesn’t like it.
Protest letters: Economists try to educate Trump on perils of tariffs
In May 2018, more than eleven hundred American economics teachers and economists, among them eleven Nobel Prize winners, banded together to sign an open
Conquering snow, old-style
Awakened recently at four and then six in the morning by the clanking and booming of salt trucks and snow plows lumbering outside my
H.W. Bush & Bob Dole fought a “good war”
Bob Dole did everything that he could to get his ninety-five-year-old war-ravaged body once again to the U.S. Capitol, this time to pay a final tribute to his friend and rival, George H.W. Bush.
How World War I unleashed total war and the power of propaganda
Nov. 11, now called Veterans Day, was originally Armistice Day, a commemoration of the end of World War I, in 1918, the cessation of