Happy 4th of July! This year, I’m proud to be an American because this land is filled with diverse and wonderful people of every color, every gender, every class, and every status, who I feel fortunate to stand alongside and[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
From the Fox and Friends interview ramble to the latest from Kanye West, this past week of news has been exhausting. And repetitive.
Rutherford B. Hayes was a deeply religious man and would sing gospel hymns with his family every night. Clearly out of danger of any major consequential disasters, the administration, cabinet, and even Vice President William Wheeler would often join in[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Happy Washington’s Birthday! Enjoy your day off (for some) and pick up a presidential biography! Or better yet, a copy of the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 and wonder why we keep finding ourselves in this demeaning immigration feedback loop.
Frederick Douglass was born in February 1818, and although we don’t know the exact day, he chose the 14th for himself, so happy 200th! Among a lifetime of struggles and accomplishments the likes of which I, and most people today,[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Happy Birthday to Abraham Lincoln! The “A for Assassination” folder was real and contained some 80 different death threats that he collected against himself once the staff stopped outright burning them. These, of course, don’t include the barrage of normal[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The Know-Nothing movement came to fruition in the mid-1850s as a secret society that believed that a Catholic invasion was taking over the United States through an influx of Irish and German immigrants. The name comes from when members stated[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
