history – Page 4

“We Mutually Pledge to Each Other”….

If I were to take a poll and as what people know if the Declaration of Independence, most would probably say the most famous

12 Mar

Recently, I was asked a rather thought provoking question, one that is being bandied about more and more, especially by those

05 Mar

There is no answer regarding conducting warfare. As someone once said, “it’s an equal opportunity destroyer.” Unfortunately,

29 Jan

Edward Gibbons, the historian whose masterpiece The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, written

22 Jan

It’s a fascinating notion, and one of the great fallacies of our time, that wealthy people create poverty, if nothing

01 Jan

Recently, Vice-President Kamala Harris said that she was “open to abolishing the Electoral College” and “can’t wait to cast

15 Sep

I was watching a film clip of A Streetcar Named Desire that featured Marlon Brando as Stanley Kowalski, Tennessee

07 Sep

It’s an all too familiar trope: Politicians lining their own pockets at the expense of the people they’re supposed to serve.

11 Aug

Historian Dr. Hannah Barker calls it “generational chauvinism”. Essentially, it is the notion that what we see as a moral

30 Jul

There is a movement nationwide to de-track students. For those who are unaware, traditional education involved “tracking”;

24 Jul