Tagged: American history

This Election’s Unasked – And Disheartening – Question : Presidential Succession 0

This Election’s Unasked – And Disheartening – Question : Presidential Succession

A terrible prospect. Should Mitt Romney win on November 6th, although it’s terrifying to consider, Paul Ryan could, in a moment, become President of the United States. I was 14, a new freshman in...

Flag Day 2012 – 1861, And The War Came 0

Flag Day 2012 – 1861, And The War Came

It’s Flag Day 2012. Do you recognize this flag? Read on. “Both parties deprecated war; but one of them would make war rather than let the nation survive; and the other would accept war...

Santorum’s Concerns About Teaching Of American History In California State Universities Gets Quick Follow-Through Action 0

Santorum’s Concerns About Teaching Of American History In California State Universities Gets Quick Follow-Through Action

Today, in a move intended to respond to GOP presidential candidate Rick Santorum’s discovery that “seven or eight” of California’s state universities “don’t even teach an American history course,” California’s Department of Education (DOE)...

FDR 1934, A Fireside Chat That Still Resonates. 0

FDR 1934, A Fireside Chat That Still Resonates.

By 1934 our country was pulling out of the depths of the Great Depression.  During FDR’s first hundred days, from March to June 1933, with a huge Democratic party majority in the 73rd Congress, a...

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