Tag Archive for ‘America’s Hidden History’
Pancakes, Politics and the Civil War
It is sugar and snow time. Abolitionists once looked to maple sugar — as a political and economic weapon against slavery.
Cherry-Picking Thomas Paine
Thirty years ago, on March 8, 1983, President Ronald Reagan delivered a speech best know as the “evil empire” speech. He also quoted Thomas Paine- an odd choice.
Don’t Know Much About® Executive Order 9066
On February 19, 1942, President Roosevelt allowed America’s fear to provoke him into an action regarded among his worst mistakes.
Don’t Know Much About® George Washington
Yes the day we celebrate on the third Monday in February is really called “George Washington’s Birthday.”
It is NOT Presidents Day. Or President’s Day. Or Even Presidents’ Day.
We mistakenly call the third Monday in February”Presidents Day.” But. Really it is George Washington’s Birthday –federally speaking that is.
Don’t Know Much About® Abraham Lincoln’s Birthday
February 12 used to mean something — Lincoln’s Birthday. It was never a national holiday but it was pretty important when I was a kid and we got the day off from school in my hometown. The Uniform Holidays Act in 1971 changed that by creating Washington’s Birthday as a federal holiday on the third [Read More]
Don’t Know Much About® Edith Wharton
Born today in New York City in 1862: Edith Newbold Jones, who achieved fame as Edith Wharton, the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for fiction
Don’t Know Much About® Martin Luther King, Jr.
Thinking about Martin Luther King, Jr. on his actual birth-date: January 15, 1929. A post with links to resources