A witty five year-old…
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This item appeared n the “Santa Cruz Sentinel“, California, on April 18, 1871:
- This item appeared n the “Santa Cruz Sentinel“, California, on April 18, 1871:
Thankfully no arboreal collaborators…
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The following brief item appeared in “The Daily Picayune” of March 4, 1845. I’m not sure what the last sentence is meant to imply but it adds a comical note for the modern reader:
Better luck next time…
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“The Evening Wisconsin” of Milwaukee, Dec. 17, 1888 reports a bad day for two train robbers. Perhaps their watches were set for the wrong time zone?
Perhaps not a good combination…
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This front page headline in the “Evening Wisconsin“, Milwaukee, July 13, 1888 makes one wonder who is going to make “the call”. Follow-up articles might have provided interesting reading.
Maryland’s first newspapers…
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The first two newspapers published in Maryland were both done in Annapolis, and both titled “Maryland Gazette“. The earlier of the two was presumed to have started on Sept. 16, 1727 based upon the earliest issue located, that of December 10, 1728, issue number 65. It was also the first newspaper south of Pennsylvania. It [...]Digital newspaper archives…
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Many collectors of historic newspapers often collect issues based upon desired content. If the content is relatively common or is within a clearly defined (and small) time frame, finding issues to collect may not be too difficult. However, if the desired content appeared within issues only occasionally and/or over large spans of time, finding desired [...]God Bless Our Warriors!
Updated: 2010-05-31 02:59:35
Leon Adams
The God of War
Thoughts on the Italian Invasion of Ethiopia
Mars has again descended from his throne
To ravage earth with bloody human strife;
To break away the bonds of peace and love
And send one nation warring with another,
As sparrows combat o’er a trifling crumb;
To wash the verdant earth with sickening blood
And herald death into a million [...]‘Finishing the Dream’: Learning from the Civil Rights Era - A MUST SEE FOR EVERYONE !
Updated: 2010-05-27 18:04:41Dr. Carol Adams, President & CEO of DuSable Museum is one of the featured panelists. Tune-in to the Finishing The Dream special on NBC5 Chicago. Sunday, May 30th at 8 AM and Monday, May 31st at 4:30 PMNo More 12th Grade?
Updated: 2010-05-26 18:44:23
I think it is safe to say that when things are tough, people become loony when dealing with education reform. I have been following the interesting situation in Texas, where the Slave Trade is being changed to the “Atlantic Triangular Trade in textbooks. But now Utah wants to put their five cents in. They don’t [...]The Search for Order: 1877-1920
Updated: 2010-05-26 04:01:25
Robert H. Wiebe is the professor of history at Northwestern University, and is the author of The Segmented Society and Self Rule: A Cultural History of American Democracy, and The Search for Order, 1877-1920, the focus of this short post.
This is a book assigned to me in my graduate class and I am compelled to [...]Totalitarianism: The Savior of American Capitalism?
Updated: 2010-05-24 03:08:51
Now that I’ve got your attention let me explain what I mean by my title. I currently finished reading The End of Reform by Alan Brinkley for one of my APU courses. Brinkley argues that the time period from 1937-1945, the “second half” of the New Deal, was the “end of reform.” Americans had switched [...]Rand Paul's Free Market Fundamentalism
Updated: 2010-05-23 14:35:06The Failure of Public Schools?
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I am a teacher at a public school and this new documentary I find interesting. I look forward to seeing this film when it opens in June, 2010:
Ira Stoll’s “Samuel Adams: A Life”
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Type in “Samuel Adams” and do a google.com search and you are just as likely to come up with links and images referring to the Beer Company Samuel Adams.
As historian Ira Stoll notes, “History has not been kind to Samuel Adams,” and indeed one might ask why?
As an APUS History teacher I have to [...]Conservative Hypocrisy and the Impending Crisis
Updated: 2010-05-17 03:20:05
To be sure, there is an impending economic crisis that will be world wide in its impact. I have little doubt that the worst is yet to come. With this in mind…
Republican Conservative pundits like Sean Hannity, Rush Limbaugh, and Glenn Beck, are sometimes found of reflecting back to the Founding Fathers to justify current [...]“The Rivalry”
Updated: 2010-05-14 23:57:36
I live in Whittier, Ca., which is a suburb of Los Angeles. But next week, joined by my lovely wife, we will be driving to San Diego to see a play based on the Lincoln Douglas Debates at the Lamb’s Player Theater. The play, The Rivlary, is a three actor stage play that include the characters [...]Worst Riots in American History
Updated: 2010-05-12 14:19:11