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# Don't Know Much

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- [From Trinity to Hiroshima: The Month That Changed The World--July 16-August 15, 1945](https://dontknowmuch.com/2026/07/the-month-that-changed-the-world/) - As we approach Hiroshima Day on August 6, this post offers a day-by-day timeline of the momentous events that led to the dropping of the atomic bombs on Japan
- [Who Said It?](https://dontknowmuch.com/2026/07/who-said-it-july-30-2023/) - "A great nation does not hide its history. It faces its flaws and corrects them. This museum tells the truth that a country founded on the promise of liberty held millions in chains. That the price of our union was America’s original sin." --Former President George W. Bush, September 2016 speech at the opening ceremony
- [Who Said It: "The history of our Revolution will be one continued Lye..."](https://dontknowmuch.com/2026/07/who-said-it-the-history-of-our-revolution-will-be-one-continued-lye/) - The History of our Revolution will be one continued Lye...
- [What Jefferson Wrote --And What Was Left Out](https://dontknowmuch.com/2026/06/dont-know-much-about®-thomas-jefferson/) - The author of the Declaration of Independence embodies many of the contradictions between America's ideals and actions.
- [Two for the 4th](https://dontknowmuch.com/2026/06/two-for-the-4th/) - To mark America's 250th birthday, I offer two of my books that look at the history of democracy in America.
- [The Divisive & Partisan History of "Memorial Day"](https://dontknowmuch.com/2026/05/the-divisive-history-of-memorial-day/) - America’s most solemn holiday should be free of rancor. But it never has been.
- [Don't Know Much About® Memorial Day](https://dontknowmuch.com/2026/05/dont-know-much-about-memorial-day/) - Memorial Day is the most solemn day on the American calendar. Some of its history and traditions are explained in this post.
- [GREAT SHORT BOOKS: A Year of Reading--Briefly](https://dontknowmuch.com/2026/02/great-short-books-a-year-of-reading-briefly/) - Have you made a "Reading Resolution?" Here's "An exciting guide to all that the world of fiction has to offer in 58 short novels" (New York Times): a year's worth of books, all readable in a week or less
- [The World in Books: A Year of Reading--Wisely](https://dontknowmuch.com/2026/03/the-world-in-books-coming-in-october-2024/) - Make a "Reading Resolution" with "The World in Books": “A wealth of succinct, entertaining advice.” (Kirkus) Now available in paperback
- [It is NOT Presidents Day. Or President's Day. Or Even Presidents' Day.](https://dontknowmuch.com/2026/02/it-is-not-presidents-day-or-presidents-day-or-even-presidents-day/) - We mistakenly call the third Monday in February "Presidents Day." But it is really still George Washington’s Birthday. And this one is like no other.
- [In the Shadow of Liberty](https://dontknowmuch.com/2026/01/in-the-shadow-of-liberty-2/) - In the current political landscape, teaching an accurate version of American History is under assault. We cannot let the past be erased or covered up.
- [Who Started the "War on Christmas?"](https://dontknowmuch.com/2025/12/dont-know-much-about-the-war-on-christmas/) - It's that time of year, the "War on Christmas" is back. Who started it?
- [Pilgrims, Parades, and Pigskin: A Thanksgiving Primer](https://dontknowmuch.com/2025/11/turkeys-parades-and-football-a-thanksgiving-primer/) - A few questions and answers about the fourth Thursday in November
- [Two for Thanksgiving: Real First Pilgrims & Holiday's History](https://dontknowmuch.com/2025/11/two-for-thanksgiving-real-first-pilgrims-holidays-history/) - My Thanksgiving tradition. Two articles about the holiday that I wrote for the New York Times.
- [11-11-11: Don't Know Much About Veterans Day-The Forgotten Meaning](https://dontknowmuch.com/2025/11/dont-know-much-about-veterans-day-the-forgotten-meaning/) - VETERANS DAY is marked on Tuesday November 11, 2025. Read the Hidden History behind this holiday.
- [Don't Know Much About® Halloween--The Hidden History](https://dontknowmuch.com/2025/10/halloween-the-hidden-history/) - Costumes, “trick or treat” and Jack-o-lanterns all got started more than two thousand years ago at an Irish bonfire.
- [When Robin Hood Was Blacklisted](https://dontknowmuch.com/2025/09/when-robin-hood-was-blacklisted/) - Banned Books Week begins on October 5, 2025. In 1953, the American Library Association said, “The freedom to read is essential to our democracy. It is continuously under attack.” A little historical context.
- [Who Said It? 10/28/2021](https://dontknowmuch.com/2025/09/who-said-it-10-28-2021/) - President Dwight D. Eisenhower (June 14, 1953) In 1953, Senator Joseph McCarthy, with assistance from FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover, campaigned to suppress books hinting at any connection to Socialism or Communism. In April 1953, two of McCarthy’s underlings, Roy Cohn and David Schine, were dispatched to Europe, partly to scour U.S. Information Service libraries.
- [Labor Day 2025](https://dontknowmuch.com/2025/08/labor-day-2017/) - The first federal Labor Day holiday was marked on September 3, 1894. In a new American landscape for working people, its time to rethink work and a fitting moment to consider the history of Labor Day.
- [Who Said It? (Labor Day edition)](https://dontknowmuch.com/2025/08/who-said-it-8312014-labor-day-edition/) - Who Said It? "Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration."
- [Who Said It (7-17-2022)](https://dontknowmuch.com/2025/07/who-said-it-7-17-2013/) - President Harry S. Truman (Diary Entry July 17, 1945) “Promptly a few minutes before twelve I looked up from the desk and there stood Stalin in the doorway. I got to my feet and advanced to meet him. He put out his hand and smiled. I did the same. . . . After the usual
- [Juneteenth: The "Other" Independence Day](https://dontknowmuch.com/2025/06/juneteenth-is-for-everyone/) - June 19 is a day to mark "Juneteenth" --a holiday celebrating emancipation at the end of the Civil War.
- [Whatever Became of Thomas Paine?](https://dontknowmuch.com/2025/01/whatever-became-of-thomas-paine/) - Whatever became of the influential author of the Revolutionary pamphlets Common Sense and The Crisis?
- [Who Said It 3/11/13](https://dontknowmuch.com/2013/03/who-said-it-31113/) - President Lyndon B. Johnson, The "We Shall Overcome" Speech (March 15, 1965) to the full Congress in which Johnson called for passage of the Voting Rights Act a few days after the Selma, Alabama protests met by police violence. These are the enemies: poverty, ignorance, disease. They are our enemies, nor our fellow man, not
- [Who Said It? (12/10/2020)](https://dontknowmuch.com/2025/01/who-said-it-12-10-2020/) - Who said it? "A disruption of the Federal Union, heretofore only menaced, is now formidably attempted."
- [The Greatest Second Inaugural Address?](https://dontknowmuch.com/2025/01/the-greatest-second-inaugural/) - Which was the best SECOND Inaugural speech?
- ["On the Power of Reading"--CBS Mornings Interview](https://dontknowmuch.com/2024/12/on-the-power-of-reading-cbs-mornings-interview/) - Kenneth C. Davis, author of "The World in Books," joins "CBS Mornings" to talk about the power of reading and the need to fight for the right to access books in an era of increasing bans across the U.S.
- [Listen to a Conversation about "The World in Books" from Kansas Public Radio](https://dontknowmuch.com/2024/12/listen-to-a-conversation-about-the-world-in-books-from-kansas-public-radio/) - On this edition of Conversations, Kenneth C. Davis talks with host Dan Skinner about “The World in Books: 52 Works of Great Short Non-Fiction.”
- [Who Said It? "I must study politiciks and war..."](https://dontknowmuch.com/2024/10/who-said-it-i-must-study-politiciks-and-war/) - John Adams, writing to his wife Abigail from Paris (May 12, 1780) I must study Politicks and War that my sons may have liberty to study Mathematicks and Philosophy. My sons ought to study Mathematicks and Philosophy, Geography, natural History, Naval Architecture, navigation, Commerce and Agriculture, in order to give their Children a right to
- [Don't Know Much About® Edith Wharton](https://dontknowmuch.com/2023/08/dont-know-much-about-edith-wharton/) - Born in New York City as Edith Newbold Jones, she achieved fame as Edith Wharton. You may know her fiction but don't know her wartime story. Edith Wharton died on August 11, 1937
- [Don't Know Much About Executive Orders 9980 and 9981](https://dontknowmuch.com/2024/07/truman-ends-discrimination-in-the-military/) - With an executive Order, Pres. Truman desegregated the military on July 26, 1948.
- [Don't Know Much About® Fascism](https://dontknowmuch.com/2016/10/dont-know-much-about-fascism/) - [Originally published on October 29, 2016; revised June 22, 2022] On October 28, 1922, Fascism came to Italy as Benito Mussolini took control of the government. In the midst of the current presidential campaign, the word “fascist” has been tossed about quite a bit. It is the political "F-word," most associated with World War II dictators,
- [The Top Ten Political Conventions That Mattered the Most](https://dontknowmuch.com/2024/07/the-top-ten-political-parties-that-mattered-the-most/) - It's time for the political conventions. Here is a quick history of this venerable institution that might become extinct.
- [Don't Know Much About® Hiroshima](https://dontknowmuch.com/2022/08/dont-know-much-about-hiroshima/) - On August 6, 1945, the first atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima.
- [Who Said It?](https://dontknowmuch.com/2024/06/who-said-it-6213/) - Who Said It? "Men's souls will be shaken with the violences of war."
- [Don't Know Much About Memorial Day](https://dontknowmuch.com/2024/05/dont-know-much-about-memorial-day-2/) - Memorial Day, the most solemn occasion on the national calendar, is about the Civil War, which was fought because of slavery.
- [Who Said it](https://dontknowmuch.com/2024/05/who-said-it-542015/) - Who Said It? "The flags of freedom fly all over Europe."
- [Don't Know Much About® Harry S. Truman](https://dontknowmuch.com/2024/05/dont-know-much-about-harry-s-truman-3/) - Born on May 8, 1884, the 33rd President of the United States, Harry S. Truman
- [Don't Know Much About® the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire](https://dontknowmuch.com/2024/03/dont-know-much-about-the-triangle-shirtwaist-fire/) - On March 25, 1911, the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory in New York caught fire and 146 people died.
- [Don't Know Much About® Mr. Madison](https://dontknowmuch.com/2024/03/meeting-mr-madison/) - March 16 marks the anniversary of the birth of America's fourth President, James Madison, also known as "The Father of the Constitution."
- [Don't Know Much About® Andrew Jackson](https://dontknowmuch.com/2024/03/dont-know-much-about-andrew-jackson/) - On March 27, 1814, Andrew Jackson's troops massacred Red Eagle and his Creek people in one of the bloodiest defeats of native Americans in the nation's history.
- [What Do We Do About George?](https://dontknowmuch.com/2024/02/what-do-we-do-about-george/) - As the nation reckons with its horrific history of slavery, what do we do about George Washington?
- ["Did you know?" from THE HIDDEN HISTORY OF AMERICA AT WAR](https://dontknowmuch.com/2015/07/did-you-know-from-the-hidden-history-of-america-at-war/) - War stories help shape a nation’s identity. But if the stories sweep facts under the rug, they are ‘foundation legends,’ not history.
- [J.D. Salinger: Art Director](https://dontknowmuch.com/2013/08/j-d-salinger-art-director/) - When J.D. Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye was first issued in a paperback reprint, the reclusive author was not happy with the cover. Another publisher let the author design his own cover.
- [Don't Know Much About® Martin Van Buren](https://dontknowmuch.com/2023/12/van-buren/) - Martin Van Buren, the eighth President of the United States, was born on December 5, 1782 in Kinderhook, New York, making him the first American president born a U.S. citizen.
- [Don't Know Much About the Lovings](https://dontknowmuch.com/2023/06/dont-know-much-about-the-lovings/) - On June 12, 1967, the Supreme Court issued its ruling in Loving v Virginia, striking down state laws prohibiting interracial marriage (“miscegenation”) in America.
- [Why Labor Day? Check out this Ted-Ed animated video](https://dontknowmuch.com/2023/08/new-ted-ed-animated-video-labor-day/) - The first federal Labor Day holidays was marked on September 3, 1894. An animated video from Ted-Ed on the history of Labor Day.
- [Who Said It?](https://dontknowmuch.com/2023/08/who-said-it-8-5-2020/) - Who Said "This is the day when Fascist and police governments cease to exist in the world. This is the day for democracy."
- [Don't Know Much About® Herbert Hoover](https://dontknowmuch.com/2023/08/dont-know-much-about-herbert-hoover/) - Born on August 10, 1874, Herbert Clark Hoover, the 31st president of the United States.
- [Where is Herbert Hoover When We Need Him?](https://dontknowmuch.com/2020/04/where-is-herbert-hoover-when-we-need-him/) - During World War I, future US President Herbert Hoover organized a food programs that saved millions of lives. We could use it today.
- ["Lives, Fortunes, Sacred Honor:" Whatever Became Of 56 Signers? (1st in a series)](https://dontknowmuch.com/2023/07/whatever-became-of56-signers-one-in-a-series/) - 56 Signers of the Declaration of Independence. You might know a few. What about the rest of them?
- [Whatever Became of 56 Signers? (11 of 11)](https://dontknowmuch.com/2023/06/whatever-became-of-56-signers-11-of-11/) - A New Hampshire slaver. A forgotten founder who died in debt and disgrace. A college president. A legendary bullet maker. Jefferson’s teacher –and a murder victim. Last in on the lives of the 56 men who signed the Declaration of Independence
- [Whatever Became of 56 Signers (Part 10 of 11)](https://dontknowmuch.com/2023/06/whatever-became-of-56-signers-part-10-of-11/) - Whatever Became of 56 Signers? A victim of the British. Two Irish immigrants. An orphaned carpenter.
- [Whatever Became of 56 Signers? (Part 9)](https://dontknowmuch.com/2023/06/whatever-became-of-56-signers-part-9/) - Whatever Became of 56 Signers? Betsy Ross's uncle. The "first psychiatrist." Youngest signer. The Great Compromiser. An Irish man named Smith.
- [Whatever Became of 56 Signers? (Part 8)](https://dontknowmuch.com/2023/06/whatever-became-of-56-signers-part-8/) - Whatever Became Of 56 Signers: Minister turned lawyer. Self-taught planters's sons. A Nay vote. A rare bachelor. And a veiled man.
- [Whatever Became of 56 Signers? (7th in series)](https://dontknowmuch.com/2023/06/whatever-became-of-56-signers-7th-in-series/) - Whatever Became of 56 Signers Part 7: A tavern owner's son, two of America's wealthiest men, a POW, and the first signer to die.
- [Whatever Became of 56 Signers? (6th in a series)](https://dontknowmuch.com/2023/06/whatever-became-of-56-signers-6th-in-a-series/) - Whatever Became of 56 Signers (6th in a series) Wealthy planters, and a couple of very wealthy New York merchants. And a secession threat--over slavery.
- [Whatever Became of 56 Signers? (5th in a series)](https://dontknowmuch.com/2023/06/whatever-became-of-56-signers-5th-in-a-series/) - Whatever Became of 56 signers. Part 5 includes an abolitionist, a flag designer, and "the Author."
- [Whatever Became of 56 Signers? (4th in a series)](https://dontknowmuch.com/2023/06/whatever-became-of-56-signers-4th-in-a-series/) - Whatever Became of 56 Signers? (Part 4) Father and great-grandfather of presidents, a simple farmer, Quaker merchant, a workaholic, and a lawyer.
- [Whatever Became Of…56 Signers? (3d in series)](https://dontknowmuch.com/2023/06/whatever-became-of56-signers-3d-in-series/) - The signers of the Declaration of Independence: A printer, a politician, a duelist, a Connecticut Yankee and the most famous signature in U.S. history
- [Whatever Became Of…56 Signers? (2d in a series)](https://dontknowmuch.com/2023/06/whatever-became-of56-signers-2d-in-a-series/) - Who were the 56 signers of the Declaration and what became of them?
- [Who Said It? (6-20-2023)](https://dontknowmuch.com/2023/06/who-said-it-5-18-2023/) - Abraham Lincoln, November 19, 1863 -Gettysburg, PA. With Memorial Day and Juneteenth behind us and looking towards July 4th, I think it is always appropriate to read Lincoln's Gettysburg Address as the perfect statement of what these holidays mean. This is a link to the Library of Congress online Exhibition about the Gettysburg Address: This
- [What do we do about Mr. Jefferson?](https://dontknowmuch.com/2023/04/happy-birthday-mr-jefferson/) - Thomas Jefferson was born on April 13, 1743. He embodied America's Great Contradiction- a nation "conceived in liberty" was born in shackles
- [Don't Know Much About ® the "Marshall Plan"](https://dontknowmuch.com/2023/04/the-birth-of-the-marshall-plan/) - On April 3, 1948, President Truman signed into law the Economic Recovery Act, better known as the “Marshall Plan.”
- [Don't Know Much About® "His Accidency," John Tyler](https://dontknowmuch.com/2023/03/dont-know-much-about®-his-accidency-john-tyler/) - John Tyler, born on March 29, 1790 and the first Vice-President to succeed to the Presidency. He was also elected to serve in the Confederacy.
- ["A lover's quarrel with the world"-Robert Frost](https://dontknowmuch.com/2023/03/touch-of-frost-a-videoblog/) - America's poet, Robert Frost was born on March 26, 1874. A brief videopost on his life and work.
- [Who Said It? (2/7/2013)](https://dontknowmuch.com/2023/02/10912/) - George Washington in a letter to Robert Morris, April 12, 1786. I hope it will not be conceived from these observations, that it is my wish to hold the unhappy people who are the subject of this letter, in slavery. I can only say that there is not a man living who wishes more
- ["Two Societies, One Black, One White"](https://dontknowmuch.com/2023/02/two-societies-one-black-one-white/) - More than 50 years ago, the Kerner Commission investigating racial violence released its findings and said the country was moving toward two societies one white, one black, "separate and unequal."
- [Happy Birthday, FDR!](https://dontknowmuch.com/2023/01/happy-birthday-fdr/) - Born on January 30, 1882; Franklin D. Roosevelt
- [Resolve to Read](https://dontknowmuch.com/2022/12/resolvetoread/) - A new pandemic-- Preoccuphonia: The act of being constantly occupied, even addicted, to our smartphones. There is an antidote
- [Libraries Are Lifelines. Leave Them Alone.](https://dontknowmuch.com/2022/07/libraries-are-lifelines-leave-them-alone/) - In the age of disinformation and conspiracy theories dominating the media, the library is more essential than ever. But librarians are under attack.
- [Winter Solstice 2021: The "Reason for the Season"](https://dontknowmuch.com/2021/12/the-12-myths-of-christmas-2/) - The 2021 Winter Solstice arrives on December 21 at 10:59 am EST. The reason for the season.
- ["Great Short Books" on "Tony Guida's New York"](https://dontknowmuch.com/2022/11/great-short-books-on-tony-guidas-new-york/) - I joined veteran newsman Tony Guida on his CUNY TV show "Tony Guida's New York" to talk about Great Short Books: A Year of Reading--Briefly"
- [STRONGMAN: The Rise of Five Dictators and the Fall of Democracy](https://dontknowmuch.com/2022/11/strongman-the-rise-of-five-dictators-and-the-fall-of-democracy/) - Strongman has been named to the Junior Library Guild's "Gold Standard Collection"
- [Thanksgiving Pop Quiz- A Videoblog](https://dontknowmuch.com/2019/11/thanksgiving-myths-a-videoblog/) - With Thanksgiving around the corner, cutouts of Pilgrims in black clothes and clunky shoes are sprouting all over the place.
- [Columbus Day-The World Is a Pear](https://dontknowmuch.com/2022/10/the-world-is-a-pear-columbus-day/) - Columbus Day-not the holiday it used to be. A videoblog
- [Remembering the Nuremberg Trials: A Don't Know Much About® Audiominute](https://dontknowmuch.com/2022/10/remembering-the-nuremberg-trials-a-dont-know-much-about-audiominute/) - As we discuss war crimes, on October 1, 1946, the verdicts in the first round of Nuremberg ("Nürnberg") Trials were handed down.
- [Constitution Day Pop Quiz: Who was the first man to sign the Constitution?](https://dontknowmuch.com/2022/09/dont-know-much-about®-constitution-day/) - "A republic madam..." On September 17, 1787, 39 delegates in Philadelphia voted to adopt the United States Constitution.
- [Who Said It?](https://dontknowmuch.com/2022/09/who-said-it-5292017/) - Who Said, "We must never forget that art is not a form of propaganda; it is a form of truth."
- [TODAY IN HISTORY: The Homestead Strike](https://dontknowmuch.com/2009/07/today-in-history-the-homestead-strike/) - As bedrock businesses, like the auto industry, are being transformed in the current economy, and American workers come under intense pressure, here's some "Hidden History" of another financial meltdown. In the late 19th century, labor and industry were fraught with conflict as American business soured. Only back then, the conflict turned deadly. On July 6,
- [Don't Know Much About® Lyndon B. Johnson](https://dontknowmuch.com/2022/08/dont-know-much-about®-lyndon-b-johnson/) - The 36th President, Lyndon B. Johnson, was born on August 27, 1908, in a small farmhouse near Stonewall, Texas
- [Whose History Is It?](https://dontknowmuch.com/2022/08/whose-history-is-it/) - On August 20, 1619, captive Africans were sold into servitude at Jamestown, Virginia. What makes America "Exceptional?" Whose history it is? And who gets to tell it.
- [Don't Know Much About® the Tonkin Resolution](https://dontknowmuch.com/2022/08/dont-know-much-about-the-tonkin-resolution/) - On August 7, 1964, Congress approved a resolution that soon became the legal basis for the Vietnam War
- [Don't Know Much About® New York's Bloody Draft Riots](https://dontknowmuch.com/2022/07/today-in-history-new-yorks-bloody-draft-riots/) - On July 13, 1863 New York City exploded in a four-day long murderous riot, still considered one of the deadliest urban riots in American history. The cause of the riots--violent opposition to the Civil War draft law.
- [Who Said it? (7/2/2021)](https://dontknowmuch.com/2022/06/who-said-it-7213/) - John Adams in a letter to Abigail Adams (July 3 1776) But the Day is past. The Second Day of July 1776, will be the most memorable Epocha, in the History of America....It ought to be solemnized with Pomp and Parade, with Shews, Games, Sports, Guns, Bells, Bonfires and Illuminations from one End
- [Don't Know Much About® D-Day](https://dontknowmuch.com/2022/06/who-said-it-642014/) - Today is the anniversary of D-Day--Operation Overlord-- June 6, 1944, against Hitler’s Germany. The landing in Normandy, France helped lead the way to the defeat of the Nazi Reich.
- [Don't Know Much About Benedict Arnold and His Boot](https://dontknowmuch.com/2022/05/dont-know-much-about-benedict-arnold/) - In May 1775, Fort Ticonderoga was captured from the British. Ethan Allen got the credit. But guess who else was there?
- [Who Said it?](https://dontknowmuch.com/2022/04/who-said-it-april-27-2022/) - President Ulysses S. Grant Sixth Annual Message to the Congress, December 7, 1874 I regret to say that with preparations for the late election decided indications appeared in some localities in the Southern States of a determination, by acts of violence and intimidation, to deprive citizens of the freedom of the ballot because of
- [Don't Know Much About U.S. Grant](https://dontknowmuch.com/2022/04/dont-know-much-about-u-s-grant/) - Born April 27, 1822, the 18th President of the United States, Ulysses S. Grant
- [Greatest American Speech?](https://dontknowmuch.com/2022/04/greatest-american-speech/) - The greatest speech in American history? Weeks before his death, Lincoln was inaugurated for a second term
- [Don't Know Much About® Eli Whitney (A TED-Ed "Lesson Worth Sharing")](https://dontknowmuch.com/2022/03/dont-know-much-about-eli-whitney-a-ted-ed-lesson-worth-sharing/) - On March 14, 1794, Eli Whitney received a patent for the machine known as the Cotton Gin. Here is a short video about the Connecticut-born inventor's most famous "invention," the Cotton Gin. This was created as my first contribution to Ted-Ed: "Lessons Worth Sharing." This portrait of the inventor is by another inventor-- Samuel F.B.
- [Don't Know Much About® Executive Order 9066](https://dontknowmuch.com/2022/02/dont-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® Internment](https://dontknowmuch.com/2011/05/dont-know-much-about®-internment/) - On Mach 23, 1942 --167 years later-- the United States government began taking away the liberty of more than one hundred thousand people--the Japanese Americans viewed as a threat after Pearl Harbor. On that date, the U.S. Army began removing people of Japanese descent from Los Angeles.
- [Don't Know Much About® "Common Sense"](https://dontknowmuch.com/2022/01/dont-know-much-about®-common-sense/) - Thomas Paine's "Common Sense" appeared on January 10, 1776 and changed the course of history.
- [The Memory Hole](https://dontknowmuch.com/2022/01/the-memory-hole/) - As we near the anniversary of the Capitol Insurrection, whose history is it? Who gets to tell it? And whose truth ends up in schoolbooks?
- [The Hidden History of America At War (C-Span video)](https://dontknowmuch.com/2021/12/the-hidden-history-of-america-at-war-c-span-video/) - On December 4, 1783, General George Washington bid farewell to his troops at the historic Fraunces Tavern Museum in Lower Manhattan. I spoke there several years ago and C-Span captured the lecture.
- [The Anniversary of "Kristallnacht"-A Don't Know Much About® Audio Minute](https://dontknowmuch.com/2021/01/the-anniversary-of-kristallnacht-a-dont-know-much-about-audio-minute/) - On November 9th and 10th in 1938, an outburst of anti-Semitic violence swept across Hitler's Germany.
- [Who Said It? (10/18/2021)](https://dontknowmuch.com/2021/10/who-said-it-10-18-2021/) - George Washington, in a letter to William Morris (April 12, 1786) In this letter, written nearly five years after the surrender of the British at Yorktown in October 1781, Washington wrote to William Morris, his friend and wealthy financier of the Revolution, about the problems caused by an Abolition society in the city of Philadelphia.
- [Pop Quiz: Who first used the words "Wall of Separation" in talking about church and state?](https://dontknowmuch.com/2021/10/pop-quiz-who-first-used-the-words-wall-of-separation-in-talking-about-church-and-state/) - Pop Quiz: Who first used the words "Wall of Separation" in talking about church and state?
- [Don't Know Much About® the Bible](https://dontknowmuch.com/2021/09/dont-know-much-about-the-bible/) - How the Bible was used to justify the brutal crime against humanity that was African slavery.
- [When Irish Eyes Were Not Smiling-The Bible Riots](https://dontknowmuch.com/2021/07/when-irish-eyes-were-not-smiling-the-bible-riots/) - A reminder once more that the "dangerous, dirty, job-stealing" immigrants were once Irish and Catholic.
- [Don't Know Much About the "First Pilgrims"](https://dontknowmuch.com/2021/09/dont-know-much-about-the-first-pilgrims/) - On September 20, 1565, America's first Pilgrims were wiped out in a dawn raid --a religious bloodbath -- in what was then Spanish Florida.
- [Who Said It? (8/11/2021)](https://dontknowmuch.com/2021/08/who-said-it-7-16-2020/) - Who Said It? “This is the day when Fascism finally dies..."
- [Who Said it (4/13/20)](https://dontknowmuch.com/2021/06/who-said-it-4-13-20/) - Thomas Jefferson, in 1820, discussing the fate of the Missouri Compromise --legislation which was supposed to resolve the question of the future of slavery's extension in America. Read more about Jefferson in this post. "But as it is, we have the wolf by the ear, and we can neither hold him, nor safely let him
- [Who Said It (5/24/2021)](https://dontknowmuch.com/2021/05/who-said-it-11132016/) - WHO SAID IT? "...a new nation, conceived in liberty..."
- [Who Said It? (May 26, 2015)](https://dontknowmuch.com/2021/03/who-said-it-may-26-2015/) - Who Said It? "The benevolent policy of the Government... in relation to the removal of the Indians beyond the white settlements..."
- [Who Said It? (10/30/2020)](https://dontknowmuch.com/2021/03/who-sid-it-10-30-2020/) - Who said It: “Facts are stubborn things…whatever may be our wishes and inclinations or the dictums of our passions…”
- [Don't Know Much About the 14th Amendment](https://dontknowmuch.com/2018/07/today-in-history-a-very-significant-amendment/) - On July 9, 1868, the states of Louisiana and South Carolina ratified the 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution
- [Who Said It?](https://dontknowmuch.com/2020/02/who-said-it-3/) - Who Said It: "Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered."
- [Dictators and Democracy: A Don't Know Much About® Audio Minute](https://dontknowmuch.com/2020/11/dictators-and-democracy-a-dont-know-much-about-audio-minute/) - Listen to a quick history of "people power" and the threat posed to democracy by a Strongman.
- [Thanksgiving? Or Thankstaking? 400 years after the Mayflower -- Don't Know Much About® Audiominutes](https://dontknowmuch.com/2020/11/thanksgiving-or-thankstaking-400-years-after-the-mayflower-dont-know-much-about-audiominutes/) - This year is the 400th Anniversary of the arrival of the Pilgrims, and the Mayflower Compact; a helping of Thanksgiving History
- [Two Veterans--A Dark Consequence of World War One: A Don't Know Much About® Audiominute](https://dontknowmuch.com/2020/11/two-veterans-a-dark-consequence-of-world-war-one-a-dont-know-much-about-audiominute/) - Two veterans of World War I, Benito Mussolini and Adolf Hitler, and the consequences of war.
- [Cherry-Picking Thomas Paine](https://dontknowmuch.com/2013/03/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.
- [Just in: *Starred Review for Strongman from Publishers Weekly](https://dontknowmuch.com/2020/11/just-in-starred-review-for-strongman-from-publishers-weekly/) - A starred review for Strongman in Publishers Weekly
- [Poppies and Pandemics: A Don't Know Much About® Audiominute](https://dontknowmuch.com/2020/11/poppies-and-pandemics-a-dont-know-much-about-audiominute/) - What symbol, what icon should we use to mark the tragic losses in the Covid pandemic
- [Veterans, Poppies, and "In Flanders Fields"](https://dontknowmuch.com/2020/11/in-flanders-fields/) - How the Poppy became the symbol of Veterans Day and Memorial Day
- [Four Reasons Incumbents Didn't Win Re-election: Don't Know Much About® Audio Minutes](https://dontknowmuch.com/2020/11/four-reasons-incumbents-didnt-win-re-election-dont-know-much-about-audio-minutes/) - What keeps an incumbent president from winning a second-term? This audioclip offers four reasons from history.
- [Four Reasons Why Incumbents Fail to Win a Second Term](https://dontknowmuch.com/2020/10/would-you-like-one-term-or-two-2/) - More than a few presidents who desired a second term were not returned to office. What keeps single-term Presidents from earning those added 1,461 days in office?
- [Book Excerpt- "Strongman: The Rise of Five Dictators and the Fall of Democracy"](https://dontknowmuch.com/2020/10/book-excerpt-strongman-the-rise-of-five-dictators-and-the-fall-of-democracy/) - Read an excerpt from my new book in the October issue of Social Education from the National Council for the Social Studies (NCSS)
- [When a President Asks Americans to Sacrifice](https://dontknowmuch.com/2020/10/when-a-president-asks-americans-to-sacrifice/) - In the first televised Presidential address from the White House, a president asked Americans to make a sacrifice.
- [Who Said It? (10/5)](https://dontknowmuch.com/2020/10/who-said-it-10515/) - Who Said It?
- [A Parade More Deadly Than War](https://dontknowmuch.com/2020/09/a-parade-more-deadly-than-war/) - 102 years ago, Philadelphia threw a patriotic parade that sparked a deadly outbreak of Spanish Flu killing more than 12,000 in a few weeks.
- [First Trade Review is a * Star from Kirkus](https://dontknowmuch.com/2020/09/strongman-first-review-is-a-star-from-kirkus/) - The first trade review of Strongman calls it, "A pitch-perfect balance of nuanced reflection and dire warning."
- [Who Said It? (1/23/2020)](https://dontknowmuch.com/2020/08/10305/) - Who said "there can be no one too poor to vote."
- [Who Said It? (5/8/2020)](https://dontknowmuch.com/2020/05/who-said-it-582017/) - President Harry S. Truman May 8, 1945 V-E Day. It was a good day to celebrate his birthday. THE PRESIDENT. Well, I want to start off by reading you a little statement here. I want you to understand, at the very beginning, that this press conference is held with the understanding that any and
- [Who Said It (July 17, 2020)](https://dontknowmuch.com/2020/07/who-said-it-july-17-2017/) - Who Said It? "I can deal with Stalin."
- [Don't Know Much About® Benjamin Harrison](https://dontknowmuch.com/2013/08/dont-know-much-about-benjamin-harrison/) - Benjamin Harrison, the twenty-third President of the United States, was born in North Bend, Hamilton County, Ohio, on Aug. 20, 1833.
- [Pop Quiz: Which President's father administered the oath of office to his son?](https://dontknowmuch.com/2017/08/pop-quiz-which-presidents-father-administered-the-oath-of-office-to-his-son/) - Which President's father administered the oath of office to his son?
- [George Washington: A Monumental Reckoning](https://dontknowmuch.com/2020/07/george-washington-a-monumental-reckoning/) - A videoblog about George Washington and his life as a slaveholder.
- [Don't Know Much About® the Tulsa Massacre](https://dontknowmuch.com/2020/06/dont-know-much-about-the-tulsa-race-riot/) - In June 1921, the Tulsa, Oklahoma massacre took place -- one of the bloodiest race killings in American history
- [America's Hidden History: A Road Trip](https://dontknowmuch.com/2009/08/americas-hidden-history-a-road-trip/) - Headed to the usual tourist spots like Boston and St. Augustine? Don't miss these often overlooked landmarks just down the road. With the summer travel season upon us, many families are gearing up for trips to historic hot spots. Gettysburg, Philadelphia and Mount Vernon are all crowd-pleasers, but there are many other interesting sites that
- [April 20, 1945-The Red Army Nears Berlin on Hitler's Birthday](https://dontknowmuch.com/2015/04/april-20-1945-the-red-army-nears-berlin-on-hitlers-birthday/) - April 20, 1945-The Red Army Closes in on Berlin on Hitler's Birthday
- ["Return to Normalcy"](https://dontknowmuch.com/2020/05/return-to-normalcy/) - Will a post-pandemic world return to "Normalcy?"
- [Don't Know Much About® Dorothea Lange](https://dontknowmuch.com/2020/05/dont-know-much-about-dorothea-lange/) - One of America's great photographers, Dorothea Lange, was born on May 26.
- [Who Said It? (5/13/20)](https://dontknowmuch.com/2020/05/who-said-it-5-13-20/) - Who Said: "America’s present need is not heroics, but healing; not nostrums, but normalcy"
- [The 1918 Pandemic That Killed Millions (Matter of Fact video)](https://dontknowmuch.com/2020/05/10387/) - The 1918 Spanish flu pandemic killed millions. What can we learn from it today?
- [The first "Mother's Day"-Some Hidden History](https://dontknowmuch.com/2020/05/mothers-day-a-hidden-history/) - Amidst the brunches, flower-giving and chocolate samplers, there is a story of another "Mother's Day" worth remembering this weekend.
- [Don't Know Much About® George Washington's Fashion Statement](https://dontknowmuch.com/2020/04/dont-know-much-about-george-washingtons-fashion-statement/) - April 30, 1789. For his first inauguration, Washington wore a brown suit, white silk stockings, and shoes with silver buckles,
- [12 Myths of Christmas (6): Mistletoe and Kissing](https://dontknowmuch.com/2009/12/12-myths-of-christmas-6-mistletoe-and-kissing/) - So Mommy was kissing Santa underneath the mistletoe last night. Surely, you've wondered why. What does a parasitic plant have to do with the birth of the baby Jesus?
- [Who Said It? (4/25/20)](https://dontknowmuch.com/2020/04/who-said-it-4-25-20/) - Who Said It? "And this, too, shall pass away."
- ["The American Contradiction: Conceived in Liberty, Born in Shackles"](https://dontknowmuch.com/2020/04/10361/) - How we teach and talk about slavery in US History from Social Education magazine
- ["Have Americans Forgotten the History of this Deadly Flu?"](https://dontknowmuch.com/2020/03/have-americans-forgotten-the-history-of-this-deadly-flu/) - The lessons learned in 1918 during the Spanish Flu pandemic are valuable today.
- [Who Said It? (3/16/20)](https://dontknowmuch.com/2020/03/who-said-it-3-16-20/) - Who Said It? "...the same authority which can establish Christianity, in exclusion of all other Religions, may establish with the same ease any particular sect of Christians..."
- [Who Said It? (Annual Address Edition)](https://dontknowmuch.com/2020/02/who-said-it-1-2019/) - Who Said It: There is nothing which can better deserve your patronage than the promotion of science and literature.
- [Don't Know Much About® Abraham Lincoln's Birthday](https://dontknowmuch.com/2020/02/presidents-day-videoblog-lincoln/) - It is February 12- That is Lincoln's Birthday
- ["Democracy is Not a Spectator Sport"](https://dontknowmuch.com/2020/01/democracy-is-not-a-spectator-sport/) - How does democracy die? Often, democracy dies in broad daylight as thousands cheer. What can teachers and the rest of us do to protect our democracy?
- [Jefferson's Version-A few key differences](https://dontknowmuch.com/2019/07/jeffersons-version-a-few-key-differences/) - What Jefferson wrote and Congress deleted.
- [Pop Quiz: Who was the first member of Congress to enlist after Pearl Harbor?](https://dontknowmuch.com/2019/12/pop-quiz-who-was-the-first-member-of-congress-to-enlist-after-pearl-harbor/) - Who was the first member of Congress to enlist after Pearl Harbor?
- [How the Civil War Created Thanksgiving](https://dontknowmuch.com/2019/11/how-the-civil-war-created-thanksgiving/) - How the Civil War Created Thanksgiving-a New York Times Op-Ed
- [Don't Know Much About Impeachment?](https://dontknowmuch.com/2019/11/dont-know-much-about-impeachment/) - How did impeachment get into the U.S. Constitution?
- [More Deadly Than War: The Hidden History of the Spanish Flu and the First World War](https://dontknowmuch.com/2018/12/comingmay15/) - More Deadly Than War: The Hidden History of the Spanish Flu and the First World War now on sale.
- [Who Said It? (July 2019)](https://dontknowmuch.com/2019/06/who-said-it-july-2019/) - Who Said It: "The history of our Revolution will be one continued lie from one end to the other."
- [More than Dots and Dashes](https://dontknowmuch.com/2010/04/more-than-dots-and-dashes/) - On this date, April 27 in 1791, Samuel F.B. Morse was born. If you remember your grade-school history --or you were a Boy Scout who learned "Morse Code"-- his name is still familiar. He is credited with developing the telegraph. But there is something else about Morse that your schoolbooks probably left out. He wrote vitriolic anti-Catholic and anti-immigrant essays,
- [FDR had the Flu](https://dontknowmuch.com/2019/01/fdr-had-the-flu/) - Born on this date in 1882, Franklin D. Roosevelt.
- [Who Said It? (1/30/2019)](https://dontknowmuch.com/2019/01/who-said-it-1-30-2019/) - Who said, "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself"
- [IN THE SHADOW OF LIBERTY-now in paperback](https://dontknowmuch.com/2019/01/in-the-shadow-of-liberty-now-in-paperback/) - In the Shadow of Liberty: The Hidden History of Slavery, Four Presidents, and Five Black Lives is now available in paperback.
- [Who Said It? (5/19/2014)](https://dontknowmuch.com/2019/01/who-said-it-5192014/) - Who said it? "...an end to poverty and racial injustice, to which we are totally committed in our time."
- [Who Said It (12/28/2018)](https://dontknowmuch.com/2018/12/who-said-it-12-28-2018/) - Who Said It: "But the right is more precious than peace, and we shall fight for the things which we have always carried nearest our hearts,-for democracy..."
- [Don't Know Much About® Woodrow Wilson](https://dontknowmuch.com/2018/12/dont-know-much-about-woodrow-wilson/) - "Who was the last president born in a slave holding household?"
- [Who Said It? (11-9-2018)](https://dontknowmuch.com/2018/11/who-said-it-11-9-2018/) - Abraham Lincoln "Thanksgiving Proclamation" (October 1863) It has seemed to me fit and proper that they should be solemnly, reverently, and gratefully acknowledged as with one heart and one voice by the whole American people. I do, therefore, invite my fellow-citizens in every part of the United States, and also those who are at sea,
- [Who Said it (10/4/2018)](https://dontknowmuch.com/2018/10/10137/) - I found it (the world) was not round . . . but pear shaped. Christopher Columbus -- Log of his third voyage (1498) I found it (the world) was not round . . . but pear shaped, round where it has a nipple, for there it is taller, or as if one had a
- [Who Said It (8/20/18)](https://dontknowmuch.com/2018/08/who-said-it-8-20-18/) - Who Said It? "Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration."
- [Don't Know Much About the "Negro Riots" in Watts](https://dontknowmuch.com/2011/08/dont-know-much-about-the-negro-riots-in-watts/) - The recent urban riots in London that spread to other parts of England beg an obvious question: Can it happen in America? Of course, it has already happened in America, more than once. Most famously, perhaps, it happened nearly half a century ago on a hot summer night in the Los Angeles neighborhood known as
- [Who Said It? (8/7/2018)](https://dontknowmuch.com/2018/08/who-said-it-8-7-2018/) - Lyndon B. Johnson, as quoted in Vietnam: A History by Stanley Karnow, regarding the supposed attack on a U.S. Navy vessel off the coast of Vietnam in August 1964. Even Johnson privately expressed doubts only a few days after the second attack supposedly took place, confiding to an aide, ‘Hell, those dumb stupid sailors were just
- [In the Shadow of Liberty](https://dontknowmuch.com/2018/06/in-the-shadow-of-liberty/) - The history of slavery and its role in American history and society has never been more important. Read about its significance through the stories of five real people.
- [Who Said It (4/30/18)](https://dontknowmuch.com/2018/04/who-said-it-4-30-18/) - Who Said, "...the foundations of our National policy will be laid in the pure and immutable principles of private morality."
- [Who Said It (4/26/18)](https://dontknowmuch.com/2018/04/who-said-it-4-26-18/) - Who Said It: "Adoption of the fifteenth amendment ...constitutes the most important event that has occurred since the nation came into life."
- [Who Said It? (4/24/15)](https://dontknowmuch.com/2015/04/who-said-it-42415/) - Under existing conditions the negro votes the Republican ticket because he knows his friends are of that party. Answer: President Ulysses S. Grant "Sixth Annual Message" (December 7, 1874) Under existing conditions the negro votes the Republican ticket because he knows his friends are of that party. Many a good citizen votes the opposite, not
- [Now Available: "In the Shadow of Liberty"](https://dontknowmuch.com/2016/11/early-reviews-for-in-the-shadow-of-liberty/) - The first prepublication reviews of "In the Shadow of Liberty" are in: "eye-opening," "valuable," and "timely"
- [Advance Praise for MORE DEADLY THAN WAR-In stores May 2018](https://dontknowmuch.com/2018/03/advance-praise-for-more-deadly-than-war/) - Advance praise for More Deadly Than War: The Hidden History of the Spanish Flu and the First World War by Kenneth C. Davis
- [The Spanish Flu, World War I, and Suffrage,](https://dontknowmuch.com/2018/03/the-spanish-flu-world-war-i-and-suffrage/) - The Spanish Flu, World War I and suffrage- how they all came together 100 years ago The Brian Lehrer Show (WNYC)
- [A different Irish parade in New York-Orange Day](https://dontknowmuch.com/2018/03/a-different-irish-parade-in-new-york-orange-day/) - New York’s virulent anti Irish-Catholic sentiment peaked with the largely overlooked “Orange Riots” of 1870 and 1871.
- [Who Said It?](https://dontknowmuch.com/2018/03/who-said-it-2/) - Who Said It ? "...until every drop of blood drawn with the lash, shall be paid by another drawn with the sword.."
- [Who Said It? 2/12/18](https://dontknowmuch.com/2018/02/who-said-it-2-12-18/) - Who said it? "...the better angels of our nature."
- [Who Said It? (1-5-18)](https://dontknowmuch.com/2018/01/who-said-it-1-5-18/) - Who said, "We have abandoned the 'trickledown' concept of national prosperity."
- [In The Shadow of Liberty- A 2018 Tayshas Reading List Selection](https://dontknowmuch.com/2017/12/in-the-shadow-of-liberty-a-2018-tayshas-reading-list-selection/) - In the Shadow of Liberty was selected for the 2018 Tayshas Reading List by the Texas Library Association.
- [Bill of Rights Day (December 15)](https://dontknowmuch.com/2017/12/bill-of-rights-day-december-15/) - On December 15, 1791, Virginia ratified the first ten Amendments to the U.S. Constitution: The Bill of Rights took effect.
- [Slavery was the "Corner-Stone:" Civil War Primary Documents](https://dontknowmuch.com/2017/11/slavery-was-the-corner-stone-civil-war-primary-documents/) - OK class. Primary Sources time. Here are three documents explaining the reasons behind Confederate secession and one notable speech by the vice president of the Confederacy, known as the "Corner-Stone" speech. They make clear what the war was about. South Carolina Secession Declaration of Causes December 24, 1860 "But an increasing hostility on the part
- [Who Said It? (10/16/2017)](https://dontknowmuch.com/2017/10/who-said-it-10162017/) - Who said "Any vessel or craft which may be proceeding toward Cuba may be intercepted..."
- ["Mob Rule Cannot Be Allowed"-Little Rock, 1957](https://dontknowmuch.com/2017/09/who-said-it-9222014/) - Who Said: "Mob rule cannot be allowed to override the decisions of our courts."
- [Who Said It? (9/18/2017)](https://dontknowmuch.com/2017/09/who-said-it-9182017/) - Answer: Frederick Douglass, "Speech to the National Free Soil Convention" (August 11, 1852) Both National Conventions acted in open contempt of the antislavery sentiment of the North, by incorporating, as the corner stone of their two platforms, the infamous law to which I have alluded—a law which, I think, will never be repealed—it is too
- [Who Said It (8/18/2017)](https://dontknowmuch.com/2017/08/who-said-it-8182017/) - Who Said It: "In giving freedom to the slave we assure freedom to the free--"
- [Don't Know Much About® the Korean War](https://dontknowmuch.com/2017/06/dont-know-much-about-the-korean-war-2/) - (Update of 2010 post) It used to be called the "Forgotten War." But it is no longer forgotten, as recent headlines out of North Korea prove. And it never really ended. The Korean War started on June 25, 1950. More than one hundred thousand troops from Communist-ruled North Korea invaded South Korea. In the wake of World
- [Who Said It? (6/26/2017)](https://dontknowmuch.com/2017/06/who-said-it-6262017/) - Who Said It: "I have ordered United States air and sea forces to give the Korean Government troops cover and support."
- [Juneteenth- Time to celebrate](https://dontknowmuch.com/2017/06/juneteenth-how-do-you-celebrate/) - June 19th is another kind of Independence Day --a day that celebrates the end of slavery in America.
- [Don't Know Much About® Homer Plessy](https://dontknowmuch.com/2017/06/dont-know-much-about-homer-plessy/) - What did “separate but equal” mean? On June 7, 1892, Homer Plessy was arrested.
- [Who Said It? (6/5/17)](https://dontknowmuch.com/2017/06/who-said-it-6517/) - John Adams, writing as "Novanglus," Boston Gazette [1774] no. 7. Incorporated in Article 30 of the Declaration of Rights in the Massachusetts Constitution [1780]. "A government of laws, and not of men." Source: The John Adams Historical Society website According to Bartlett's Familiar Quotations: "Adams credits this formulation to James Harrington [1611-1677], with those work The Commonwealth of Oceana [1656] he was
- [Don't Know Much About® JFK](https://dontknowmuch.com/2017/05/dont-know-much-about-jfk-2/) - [Earlier post revised 5/29/2017] Frozen in time as the youthful avatar of a new generation in American politics, John F. Kennedy would have been 100 years old yesterday. He was born on May 29, 1917. Now, more than 50 years after John F. Kennedy was inaugurated, the public remains fascinated with the man, his family,
- [Who Said It? (5/23/17)](https://dontknowmuch.com/2017/05/who-said-it-52317/) - Who Said It? "Their soldier lives were the reveille of freedom to a race in chains and their deaths the tattoo of rebellious tyranny in arms."
- [Who Said It (5/15/17)](https://dontknowmuch.com/2017/05/who-said-it-51517/) - Chief Justice Earl Warren, Opinion of the Court Brown v Board of Education of Topeka (May 17, 1954) This unanimous decision ruled that racial segregation of public schools is unconstitutional, overturning the "separate but equal" doctrine established in Plessy v. Ferguson in 1896. The decision stated that "separate educational facilities are inherently unequal." "In the instant cases
- [Who Said It? (4/10/17)](https://dontknowmuch.com/2017/04/who-said-it-41017/) - thus building a wall of separation between church and State.
- [C-Span Book videos](https://dontknowmuch.com/2017/03/c-span-book-videos/) - America at War Kenneth C. Davis talked about his book, The Hidden History of America at War, about the challenges the U.S. military faced from the Revolutionary War to the War in Iraq. Mr. Davis also argued that there are many popular misconceptions about the American Revolution, and the Civil and Vietnam Wars. The Hidden
- [In the Shadow of Liberty- A Finalist for Yalsa's Excellence in Nonfiction Award](https://dontknowmuch.com/2017/03/in-the-shadow-of-liberty-finalist-for-award-for-excellence-in-young-adult-nonfiction/) - In the Shadow of Liberty was a finalist for the 2017 Award for Excellence in Young Adult Nonfiction by YALSA.
- [Whitney's Cotton Gin](https://dontknowmuch.com/2017/03/whitneys-cotton-gin/) - On March 14, 1794, Eli Whitney received a patent for his cotton gin. Then what?
- [Who Said it? (3/13/2017)](https://dontknowmuch.com/2017/03/who-said-it-3132017/) - Answer: James Madison, Letter to R. H. Lee, July 17, 1785 Another of my wishes is to depend as little as possible on the labour of slaves. -- James Madison, Letter to R. H. Lee, July 17, 1785 Source: "What the founders said about slavery" George Mason University James Madison was born on March 16, 1751.
- [Christmas Riot, Bible Riots, Orange Riots-](https://dontknowmuch.com/2015/09/christmas-riot-bible-riots-orange-riots-america-when-the-pope-was-not-welcome/) - Once upon a time in America, it was Catholics whose faith was the sinister religion that Americans feared.
- [Who Said It? (3/8/2017)](https://dontknowmuch.com/2017/03/who-said-it-382017/) - Who Said It? "We had a bad banking situation."
- ["2016 Nerdy Book Club Award for Long Form Nonfiction"](https://dontknowmuch.com/2017/01/2016-nerdy-book-club-award-for-long-form-nonfiction/) - In the Shadow of Liberty has been selected for a "2016 Nerdy Book Club Award for Nonfiction"
- [Advance Praise for In the Shadow of Liberty](https://dontknowmuch.com/2016/09/advance-praise-for-in-the-shadow-of-liberty/) - "Read the book and be grateful." -Marcus Rediker, author of "The Slave Ship"
- ["Best of the Best"-ALSC](https://dontknowmuch.com/2017/02/best-of-the-best-alsc/) - In the Shadow of Liberty has been named to the “Best of the Best” list for Older Readers by the Association for Library Service to Children (ALSC)
- [Who Said It?](https://dontknowmuch.com/2017/02/who-said-it-1292016/) - Who Said It? "And to my Mulatto man William... I give immediate freedom."
- [What day is it? Don't Know Much About® George Washington](https://dontknowmuch.com/2017/02/presidents-day-videoblog-1/) - Yes, the day we celebrate on the third Monday in February is really called "George Washington's Birthday."
- [Don't Know Much About® Ansel Adams](https://dontknowmuch.com/2017/02/dont-know-much-about-ansel-adams/) - The birthdate of Ansel Adams follows by one day the anniversary of internment of Japanese which Adams documented.
- [Who Said It (1.14.2017)](https://dontknowmuch.com/2017/01/who-said-it-12-18-2016/) - Who Said It: "No man shall be compelled to frequent or support any religious worship..."
- [Who Said It (1/6/2017)](https://dontknowmuch.com/2017/01/who-said-it-162017/) - President George Washington "First Annual Message on the State of the Union" (January 8, 1790) Nor am I less persuaded that you will agree with me in opinion that there is nothing which can better deserve your patronage than the promotion of science and literature. Knowledge is in every country the surest basis of
- [Pop Quiz: Who was the last president born in a slaveholding household?](https://dontknowmuch.com/2016/12/last-potus-born-in-a-slaveholding-household/) - Who was the last president born in a slaveholding household?
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- [Pop Quiz: Which two Presidents not named Roosevelt were born in New York?](https://dontknowmuch.com/2014/12/pop-quiz-which-two-presidents-not-named-roosevelt-were-born-in-new-york/) - Which two Presidents not named Roosevelt were born in New York?
- [Pop Quiz: Which Constitutional Amendment repealed another?](https://dontknowmuch.com/2014/12/pop-quiz-which-constitutional-amendment-repealed-another/) - Pop Quiz: Which Constitutional Amendment repealed another?
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- [Pop Quiz: On November 26, 1942, FDR ordered the rationing of what basic item?](https://dontknowmuch.com/2014/11/pop-quiz-on-november-26-1942-fdr-ordered-the-rationing-of-what-basic-item/) - Pop Quiz: On November 26, 1942, FDR ordered the rationing of what basic item?
- [Don't Know Much About® the Gettysburg Address-Resources](https://dontknowmuch.com/2014/11/dont-know-much-about-the-gettysburg-address-resources/) - On November 19. 1863, Abraham Lincoln was one of the speakers who dedicated the new cemetery at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. A collection of resources
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- [Friday Pop Quiz: Who was the first U.S. President to win the Nobel Peace Prize?](https://dontknowmuch.com/2014/09/friday-pop-quiz-who-the-first-u-s-president-to-win-the-nobel-peace-prize/) - Pop Quiz: Who the first U.S. President to win the Nobel Peace Prize?
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- [Who Said It? (8/1/2014)](https://dontknowmuch.com/2014/08/who-said-it-812014/) - Who Said It? "Every man who really loves America will act and speak in the true spirit of neutrality…"
- [Pop Quiz: Where was George Washington on July 4, 1754?](https://dontknowmuch.com/2014/07/pop-quiz-where-was-george-washington-on-july-4-1754/) - Before 1776, the date of July 4 was not a happy one in Washington's life. What was he doing that day?
- [Who Said It? (6/16/2014)](https://dontknowmuch.com/2014/06/who-said-it-6162014/) - Abraham Lincoln, "House Divided Speech" before the Republican State Convention, Springfield, Illinois, (June 16, 1858) Lincoln gave this speech after being nominated by the Republican party to challenge Democrat Stephen A. Douglas for a Senate seat from Illinois. (This photograph depicts Lincoln's inauguration in March 1861. Source: Library of Congress) We are now far
- [DKMA Minute #2-Loving the 14th Amendment](https://dontknowmuch.com/2010/03/mildred-loving/) - [podcast format="video"]http://www.dontknowmuch.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/DKMAM-Loving.mov[/podcast]
- [Who Said It? (6/10/2014)](https://dontknowmuch.com/2014/06/who-said-it-6102014/) - President Ronald Reagan, "Speech at the Brandenburg Gate," (June 12, 1987) As I looked out a moment ago from the Reichstag, that embodiment of German unity, I noticed words crudely spray-painted upon the wall, perhaps by a young Berliner, “This wall will fall. Beliefs become reality.” Yes, across Europe, this wall will fall. For it
- [Pop Quiz: Has there been an Atheist President?](https://dontknowmuch.com/2014/05/pop-quiz-has-there-been-an-atheist-president/) - Has there been an Atheist President?
- [Who Said It? (5/28/2014)](https://dontknowmuch.com/2014/05/who-said-it-5282014/) - President John F. Kennedy, Inaugural Address (January 20, 1961) John F. Kennedy, the 35th President of the United States, was born on May 29, 1917. We dare not forget today that we are the heirs of that first revolution. Let the word go forth from this time and place, to friend and foe alike,
- [Memorial Day History and Traditions on CBS This Morning Saturday](https://dontknowmuch.com/2014/05/memorial-day-history-and-traditions-on-cbs-this-morning-saturday/) - May 24, 2014, 8:05 AM|Memorial Day has become the “summer is here” holiday, but of course there’s more to it. Historian Kenneth C. Davis, author of the popular “Don’t Know Much” history series, joins “CBS This Morning: Saturday” with a history lesson on the most solemn of the 11 federal holidays. CBS This Morning
- [Who Said It (5/12/2014)](https://dontknowmuch.com/2014/05/who-said-it-5122014-2/) - President James K. Polk, "Special Message to Congress on Mexican Relations" (May 11, 1846) Instead of this, however, we have been exerting our best efforts to propitiate her good will. Upon the pretext that Texas, a nation as independent as herself, thought proper to unite its destinies with our own she has affected to
- [Who Said It? (5/6/2014)](https://dontknowmuch.com/2014/05/who-said-it-562014/) - Who said, "We must work to finish the war."
- [Pop Quiz: Whose private library became the foundation of the Library of Congress?](https://dontknowmuch.com/2014/04/pop-quiz-whose-private-library-became-the-foundation-of-the-library-of-congress/) - Pop Quiz: Whose private library became the foundation of the Library of Congress?
- [Pop Quiz: Name the First Poet to take part in a Presidential Inauguration?](https://dontknowmuch.com/2014/03/pop-quiz-name-the-first-poet-to-take-part-in-a-presidential-inauguration/) - Who was the first poet to take part in a U.S. Presidential Inauguration?
- [Announcing New Round of Classroom "Virtual Visits"](https://dontknowmuch.com/2014/03/announcing-new-round-of-classroom-virtual-visits/) - KENNETH C. DAVIS will offer a LIMITED number of free SKYPE® sessions to history and Social Studies classes.
- [Who Said It? (3/24/14)](https://dontknowmuch.com/2014/03/who-said-it-32414/) - President Dwight D. Eisenhower (September 17, 1952) I have no use for those — regardless of their political party — who hold some foolish dream of spinning the clock back to days when unorganized labor was a huddled, almost helpless mass. Speech to the American Federation of Labor, New York City, 9/17/52 Today in America
- [Who Said It? (3/17/2014)](https://dontknowmuch.com/2014/03/who-said-it-3172014/) - Frederick Douglass "Men of Color, To Arms!" (March 21, 1863) A war undertaken and brazenly carried on for the perpetual enslavement of colored men, calls logically and loudly for colored men to help suppress it. Only a moderate share of sagacity was needed to see that the arm of the slave was the best defense
- [Who Said It? (3/9/2014)](https://dontknowmuch.com/2014/03/who-said-it-392014/) - President Andrew Jackson: "Veto Message Regarding the Bank of the United States "(July 10, 1832) It is to be regretted that the rich and powerful too often bend the acts of government to their selfish purposes. Distinctions in society will always exist under every just government. Equality of talents, of education, or of wealth
- [Pop Quiz: When was the last March 4th Inauguration?](https://dontknowmuch.com/2014/03/pop-quiz-when-was-the-last-march-4th-inauguration/) - Pop Quiz: When was the last March 4th Inauguration?
- [Who Said It? (3/3/2014)](https://dontknowmuch.com/2014/03/who-said-it-332014/) - Abraham Lincoln, Second Inaugural Address (March 4, 1865) Neither party expected for the war the magnitude or the duration which it has already attained. Neither anticipated that the cause of the conflict might cease with or even before the conflict itself should cease. Each looked for an easier triumph, and a result less
- [Who Said It? (2/24/14)](https://dontknowmuch.com/2014/02/who-said-it-22414/) - "For the last ten years we have had numerous and serious causes of complaint against our non-slave-holding confederate States with reference to the subject of African slavery."
- [Virginia and the Lovings-Then and Now](https://dontknowmuch.com/2014/02/virginia-and-the-lovings-then-and-now/) - Last week, a federal judge in Virginia overturned Virginia's constitutional ban on same-sex marriages.
- [Ugly Campaigns Go Way Back ](https://dontknowmuch.com/2012/09/ugly-campaigns-go-way-back/) - Think it's bad now? How about being called a "whoremongering jacobin?"
- ["A Mormon and a Catholic Walk Into a Bar..."](https://dontknowmuch.com/2012/09/a-mormon-and-a-catholic-walk-into-a-bar/) - Sounds like the opening line of a stand-up joke, doesn't it? The fact that a Mormon candidate for President and his Roman Catholic running mate seem to be attracting very little attention over their respective religions is almost news in itself. And good news. After all, the Constitution says, but no religious test shall ever
- [A Nation Rising: A Video Q&A with Author Kenneth C. Davis](https://dontknowmuch.com/2012/02/a-nation-rising-a-video-qa-with-author-kenneth-c-davis/) - (Originally recorded in May 2010) “With his special gift for revealing the significance of neglected historical characters, Kenneth Davis creates a multilayered, haunting narrative. Peeling back the veneer of self-serving nineteenth-century patriotism, Davis evokes the raw and violent spirit not just of an ‘expanding nation,’ but of an emerging and aggressive empire.” -Ray Raphael,
- [When Religions Collide](https://dontknowmuch.com/2011/07/when-religions-collide/) - The Bible Riots In a column written for CNN.com entitled "Why U.S. is Not a Christian Nation" that appeared on July 4th, I wrote about the history of early America as a secular republic. Today, a few days after marking Independence Day and celebrating the events of 1776 in Philadelphia, I want to highlight a
- [The Flag and the Fourth](https://dontknowmuch.com/2011/06/the-flag-and-the-fourth/) - You will see plenty of red, white and blue bunting around as the Fourth of July approaches. The American flag inspires patriotism and pride. But a lot of legends too. With its thirteen red and white stripes in honor of the original states, the U.S. flag has has changed a lot since 1777, when the
- [Why we "Hide" our History: A videoblog](https://dontknowmuch.com/2010/12/why-we-hide-our-history-a-videoblog/) - People ask me two questions all the time: Why don’t we know much about History? And why is so much of America’s History Hidden? To the first the answer is simple. It was boring. And to the second, we lie. Sometimes these lies are little white lies --like Washington and the Cherry Tree. But sometimes
- [Juneteenth](https://dontknowmuch.com/2010/06/juneteenth-2/) - On June 19, 1865, Union General Gordon Granger informed slaves in the area from the Gulf of Mexico to Galveston, Texas, that they were free. Lincoln had officially issued the Emancipation Proclamation on January 1, 1863, but it had taken two more years of Union victories to end the war and for this news to
- [Don't Know Much About® Flag Day (DKMAM #20)](https://dontknowmuch.com/2010/06/dont-know-much-about®-flag-day/) - FLAG DAY is celebrated on June 14 in honor of the adoption of the American flag by the Second Continental Congress in 1777. In 1877, Congress ordered the flag to be flown from every government building on June 14 to commemorate the one hundredth anniversary of the official birth of the American flag. With its
- ["Loving" the 14th Amendment: A Videoblog](https://dontknowmuch.com/2009/08/loving-the-14th-amendment-a-videoblog/) - Today's videoblog is about the 14th Amendment to the Constitution. Ratified after the Civil War, the 14th Amendment is one of the three "Reconstruction" Amendments and it granted full citizenship rights to former slaves. It also established the very important judicial concepts of "due process of law" and "equal protection." Both of these clauses have
- [The Exciting Launch of the Don't Know Much About Minutes](https://dontknowmuch.com/2009/08/the-exciting-launch-of-the-dont-know-much-about-minutes/) - Got a minute? Today I am launching a new venture in the Don't Know Much About series: the "Don't Know Much About Minute." Starting with today's inaugural videoblog, these short videos are my way of starting a conversation. In just a few, short minutes, we'll bust some myths, reveal some "Hidden History," talk about books,
- [Don't Know Much About Minute: More Pilgrims 101](https://dontknowmuch.com/2012/11/dont-know-much-about-minute-more-pilgrims-101/) - In my previous video and quiz about Thanksgiving, I told you that there were no black hats with buckles, half of the "pilgrims" weren't Pilgrims and that the first Thanksgiving was really in October. Here are a few more pieces of the picture.
- ["Don't Join the Book Burners"-Banned Books Week (2013)](https://dontknowmuch.com/2013/09/banned-books-week/) - (This video was made in 2010 but I re-post it for Banned Books Week) Don't join the book burners. Don't think you are going to conceal faults by concealing evidence that they ever existed. Don't be afraid to go in your library and read every book, as long as that document does not offend our
- [Banned Books Week (2013): "Don't Join the Book Burners"](https://dontknowmuch.com/2013/09/banned-books-week-2013-dont-join-the-book-burners/) - (This video was made in 2010 but I re-post it for Banned Books Week) To close out the 2013 edition of Banned Books Week, I offer the words of President Dwight D. Eisenhower in a commencement address delivered at Dartmouth in 1953: Don't join the book burners. Don't think you are going to conceal faults
- [ Don't Know Much About® Eli Whitney: A TED-Ed Lesson](https://dontknowmuch.com/2013/12/how-inventions-change-history-for-better-and-for-worse-ted-ed/) - To mark the birthday of American Eli Whitney on December 8, 1765, here is a short video about the Connecticut-born inventor's most famous "invention," the Cotton Gin. This was created as my first contribution to Ted-Ed: "Lessons Worth Sharing." This portrait of the inventor is by another inventor-- Samuel F.B. Morse who was a well-known
- [Who Said It? (1/6/14)](https://dontknowmuch.com/2014/01/who-said-it-1614/) - George Washington, "First Annual Message to Congress" ("State of the Union"), January 8, 1790. Knowledge is in every country the surest basis of publick happiness Nor am I less persuaded, that you will agree with me in opinion, that there is nothing which can better deserve your patronage, than the promotion of Science and
- [Who Said It? (12/23/13)](https://dontknowmuch.com/2013/12/who-said-it-122313/) - "I urge the prompt enactment of legislation which will provide for primary elections throughout the country." Woodrow Wilson, "First Annual Message" (December 2, 1913) I turn to a subject which I hope can be handled promptly and without serious controversy of any kind. I mean the method of selecting nominees for the Presidency of the
- [Who Said It? (12/16/2013)](https://dontknowmuch.com/2013/12/who-said-it-12162013/) - Thomas Jefferson "Confidential Letter to Congress" (January 18, 1803) "The Indian tribes residing within the limits of the United States, have, for a considerable time, been growing more and more uneasy at the constant diminution of the territory they occupy..." The Indian tribes residing within the limits of the United States, have, for a
- [Who Said It? (12/9/2013)](https://dontknowmuch.com/2013/12/7486/) - Who Said It? "The Negros thus bound, are (by their Masters or Mistresses) to be taught to read & write; and to be brought up to some useful occupation"
- [Who Said It? (12/1/2013)](https://dontknowmuch.com/2013/12/who-said-it-1212013/) - OK --Literally. Martin Van Buren, the eighth President of the United States, was born on December 5, 1782 in Kinderhook, New York, making him the first American president born a U.S. citizen. Van Buren was also known as "Old Kinderhook, or "OK," the origin of that American expression. The last, perhaps the greatest, of
- [Who Said It" (10/3/2013)](https://dontknowmuch.com/2013/10/who-said-it-1032013/) - President Abraham Lincoln, "Proclamation of Thanksgiving" (October 3, 1863) And I recommend to them that while offering up the ascriptions justly due to Him for such singular deliverances and blessings, they do also, with humble penitence for our national perverseness and disobedience, commend to His tender care all those who have become widows, orphans, mourners
- [Who Said It? (9/24/13)](https://dontknowmuch.com/2013/09/who-said-it-92413/) - President Dwight D. Eisenhower Address to the Nation on the Little Rock Integration Crisis (September 24, 1957) Following the decision to desegregate public schools (Brown v Board of Education, 1954), there was widespread resistance to the orders. In 1957, the integration crisis came to a head in Little Rock, Arkansas, where Governor Orval Faubus challenged
- [Who Said It (9/16/2013)](https://dontknowmuch.com/2013/09/who-said-it-9162013/) - President George Washington,"Farewell Address to the Nation" (September 19, 1796) I have already intimated to you the danger of parties in the State, with particular reference to the founding of them on geographical discriminations. Let me now take a more comprehensive view, and warn you in the most solemn manner against the baneful effects of
- [Who Said It (9/9/2013)](https://dontknowmuch.com/2013/09/who-said-it-992013/) - President Woodrow Wilson "Fourteen Points" address to Congress (January 8, 1918) What we demand in this war, therefore, is nothing peculiar to ourselves. It is that the world be made fit and safe to live in; and particularly that it be made safe for every peace-loving nation which, like our own, wishes to live
- [What You Don't Know Can Be Thrilling!](https://dontknowmuch.com/2013/08/what-you-dont-know-can-be-thrilling/) - BRING AUTHOR KENNETH C. DAVIS and the DON'T KNOW MUCH ABOUT® QUIZ TO YOUR SCHOOL OR OTHER EVENT
- [Who Said It? (9/2/13)](https://dontknowmuch.com/2013/09/who-said-it-9213/) - Abraham Lincoln "First Annual Message," December 3, 1861 Labor is prior to and independent of capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration. Capital has its rights, which are as worthy
- [Who Said It? (8/26/2013)](https://dontknowmuch.com/2013/08/who-said-it-8262013/) - (Correction: This speech was delivered on August 31, 1910) Theodore Roosevelt "New Nationalism Speech" (August 31, 1910) "There can be no effective control of corporations while their political activity remains. To put an end to it will be neither a short nor an easy task, but it can be done. We must have complete and
- [Don't Know Much About® Geography-Revised and Updated Edition](https://dontknowmuch.com/2013/08/6857/) - Now available in a revised and updated edition: DON'T KNOW MUCH ABOUT® GEOGRAPHY: Everything You Need to Know About the World but Never Learned by KENNETH C. DAVIS •Who killed the Dead Sea? •Why did Columbus think the world was shaped like a pear? •Does the World Bank have ATMs? •Is all the talk
- [Who Said It? (8-19-2013)](https://dontknowmuch.com/2013/08/who-said-it-8-19-2013/) - President Bill Clinton. "Address on Health Care Reform" (September 22, 1993) So tonight I want to talk to you about the principles that I believe must embody our efforts to reform America's health care system: security, simplicity, savings, choice, quality, and responsibility. When I launched our Nation on this journey to reform the health care
- [Don't Know Much About® President Clinton](https://dontknowmuch.com/2013/08/dont-know-much-about-president-clinton/) - Born on August 19, 1946, William Jefferson "Bill" Clinton, the 42nd President of the United States.
- [Who Said It (8/12-2013)](https://dontknowmuch.com/2013/08/who-said-it-812-2013/) - President Franklin D. Roosevelt, "PRESIDENTIAL STATEMENT SIGNING THE SOCIAL SECURITY ACT" (August 14, 1935) Today a hope of many years' standing is in large part fulfilled. The civilization of the past hundred years, with its startling industrial changes, has tended more and more to make life insecure. Young people have come to wonder
- [Who Said It? (8-5-2013)](https://dontknowmuch.com/2013/08/who-said-it-8-5-2013/) - 37th President Richard M. Nixon (1913-1994) "Resignation Speech" (August 8, 1974) From the discussions I have had with Congressional and other leaders, I have concluded that because of the Watergate matter I might not have the support of the Congress that I would consider necessary to back the very difficult decisions and carry out the
- [Who Said It? (8/2/2013)](https://dontknowmuch.com/2013/08/who-said-it-822013/) - 29th President Warren G. Harding "Second Annual Message" (State of the Union) December 8, 1922 It would be folly to ignore that we live in a motor age. The motor car reflects our standard of living and gauges the speed of our present-day life. It long ago ran down Simple Living, and never halted to
- [Who Said It (7/23/13)](https://dontknowmuch.com/2013/07/7056/) - President Ulysses S, Grant, Speech to veterans of the Army of Tennessee (September 30, 1875) "Resolve that neither the State nor the nation shall support institutions of learning other than those sufficient to afford every child the opportunity of a good common-school education, unmixed with sectarian, pagan, or atheistic dogmas. Leave the matter of religion
- ["The Will Of the People?" Or the "Tyranny of the Majority?" ](https://dontknowmuch.com/2013/07/the-will-of-the-people-or-the-tyranny-of-the-majority/) - That didn't take long. In the wake of the Supreme Court decisions in a pair of marriage equality cases on June 26 comes word that the American Civil Liberties Union will challenge Pennsylvania's ban on same-sex marriages. That idea roils opponents of gay-marriage who say "using the courts undermines the will of the voters." That
- [Who Said It? 7/9/13](https://dontknowmuch.com/2013/07/who-said-it-7913/) - President John Quincy Adams "Inaugural Address" (March 4, 1825) Our political creed is, without a dissenting voice that can be heard, that the will of the people is the source and the happiness of the people the end of all legitimate government upon earth; that the best security for the beneficence and the best guaranty
- [Who Said It? 6-24-13](https://dontknowmuch.com/2013/06/who-said-it-6-24-13/) - President Harry S. Truman, ordering U.S. forces into the Korean conflict to repel a North Korean invasion of South Korea (June 27, 1950) In Korea the Government forces, which were armed to prevent border raids and to preserve internal security, were attacked by invading forces from North Korea. The Security Council of the
- [Don't Know Much About Minute #21 - Juneteenth](https://dontknowmuch.com/2010/07/dont-know-much-about-minute-21-juneteenth/) - [podcast format="video"]http://www.dontknowmuch.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/DKMAMJuneteenth264.m4v[/podcast]
- [America's "Other" Independence Day](https://dontknowmuch.com/2011/06/americas-other-independence-day/) - America’s birthday is fast approaching. But let’s not wait for July 4th to light the fireworks. There is another Independence Day on the horizon. Juneteenth falls on June 19 each year. It is a holiday whose history was hidden for much of the last century. But as the nation now observes the 150th anniversary of the Civil War’s onset, it is a holiday worth recognizing Read more: http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history-archaeology/Juneteenth-Our-Other-Independence-Day.html#ixzz1PXGpVxj8
- [Who Said It? 6-18-13](https://dontknowmuch.com/2013/06/who-said-it-6-18-13/) - President James Madison in a Special Message to Congress (June 1, 1812) The practice, hence, is so far from affecting British subjects alone that, under the pretext of searching for these, thousands of American citizens, under the safeguard of public law and of their national flag, have been torn from their country and from
- [Who Said It? 6-12-3](https://dontknowmuch.com/2013/06/who-said-it-6-12-3/) - President George Herbert Walker Bush "Address Before a Joint Session of Congress on the End of the Gulf War" (March 6, 1991) Now, we can see a new world coming into view. A world in which there is the very real prospect of a new world order. In the words of Winston Churchill, a world
- [Who Said It 5-28-13](https://dontknowmuch.com/2013/05/who-said-it-5-28-13/) - President Andrew Jackson, "First Annual Message" ("State of the Union") December 18, 1829 Our conduct toward these people is deeply interesting to our national character. Their present condition, contrasted with what they once were, makes a most powerful appeal to our sympathies. Our ancestors found them the uncontrolled possessors of these vast regions. By persuasion
- [Who said it- 5/20/13](https://dontknowmuch.com/2013/05/who-said-it-52013/) - President Abraham Lincoln: "Message to Special Session of Congress" July 4, 1861 This is essentially a people's contest. On the side of the Union it is a struggle for maintaining in the world that form and substance of government whose leading object is to elevate the condition of men; to lift artificial weights from all
- [The "New Classics"?](https://dontknowmuch.com/2013/05/the-new-classics/) - What are the “new classics?”
- [Who Said It 5/13](https://dontknowmuch.com/2013/05/who-said-it-513/) - James K. Polk "Proclamation 47 - Announcement That a State of War Exists With the Republic of Mexico" May 13, 1846 Whereas the Congress of the United States, by virtue of the constitutional authority vested in them, have declared by their act bearing date this day that "by the act of the Republic of Mexico
- [Don't Know Much About Harry S. Truman](https://dontknowmuch.com/2013/05/dont-know-much-about-harry-s-truman-2/) - Harry S. Truman, America's 33rd President, born on May 8, 1884
- [Who Said It 5/7](https://dontknowmuch.com/2013/05/who-said-it-57/) - President Harry S. Truman, announcing the surrender of Nazi Germany (May 8, 1945) THIS IS a solemn but a glorious hour. I only wish that Franklin D. Roosevelt had lived to witness this day. General Eisenhower informs me that the forces of Germany have surrendered to the United Nations. The flags of freedom fly over
- [Who Said It -4-25-2013](https://dontknowmuch.com/2013/04/who-said-it-4-25-2013/) - President Ulysses S. Grant: First Inaugural Address (March 4, 1869) This requires security of person, property, and free religious and political opinion in every part of our common country, without regard to local prejudice. All laws to secure these ends will receive my best efforts for their enforcement. (Source: Miller Center-University of Virginia) Ulysses S.
- [Who Said It 4/14/2013](https://dontknowmuch.com/2013/04/who-said-it-4142013/) - Theodore Roosevelt: "The Man With the Muck-Rake" Speech (April 14, 1906) In Pilgrim’s Progress the Man with the Muck-rake is set forth as the example of him whose vision is fixed on carnal instead of on spiritual things. Yet he also typifies the man who in this life consistently refuses to see aught that is
- [Who Said It-4/8/13](https://dontknowmuch.com/2013/04/who-said-it-4813/) - Thomas Jefferson (born April 13, 1743) "First Inaugural Address," March 4, 1801 Freedom of religion; freedom of the press, and freedom of person under the protection of the habeas corpus, and trial by juries impartially selected. These principles form the bright constellation which has gone before us and guided our steps through an age of
- [4/2/13](https://dontknowmuch.com/2013/04/4213/) - It is a distressing and oppressive duty, Gentlemen of the Congress, which I have performed in thus addressing you. There are, it may be many months of fiery trial and sacrifice ahead of us. It is a fearful thing to lead this great peaceful people into war, into the most terrible and disastrous of
- [Who Said It 3/25/13](https://dontknowmuch.com/2013/03/who-said-it-32513/) - Dwight D. Eisenhower- "The Cross of Iron" Speech Delivered Before the American Society of Newspaper Editors, 4/16/53 Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms
- [Pancakes, Politics and the Civil War](https://dontknowmuch.com/2013/03/sugaring-time-and-the-civil-war/) - It is sugar and snow time. Abolitionists once looked to maple sugar -- as a political and economic weapon against slavery.
- [who said it? 3/19](https://dontknowmuch.com/2013/03/who-said-it-319/) - Dwight D. Eisenhower, on his appointment of Earl Warren as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court. (Source: NYTimes, PBS/The Court and Democracy,) Earl Warren was born on March 19, 1891 in Los Angeles. The former Governor of California, he was appointed Chief Justice by Eisenhower in 1953 and led the Court in the landmark
- [Who said It-3/4/2013](https://dontknowmuch.com/2013/03/who-said-it-342013/) - Ronald Reagan, "Remarks at the Annual Convention of the National Association of Evangelicals" in Orlando, Florida" (March 8, 1983) While America's military strength is important, let me add here that I've always maintained that the struggle now going on for the world will never be decided by bombs or rockets, by armies or military might.
- [who said it 2/25/13](https://dontknowmuch.com/2013/02/who-said-it-22513/) - Abraham Lincoln's "Cooper Union Address" (February 27, 1860) Neither let us be slandered from our duty by false accusations against us, nor frightened from it by menaces of destruction to the Government nor of dungeons to ourselves. LET US HAVE FAITH THAT RIGHT MAKES MIGHT, AND IN THAT FAITH, LET US, TO THE
- [2/18/2013](https://dontknowmuch.com/2013/02/2182013/) - For happily the Government of the United States gives to bigotry no sanction, to persecution no assistance, requires only that they who live under its protection should demean themselves as good citizens, in giving it on all occasions their effectual support. George Washington, "Letter to the Jews of Newport" (August 18, 1790) Source: Touro
- [Who Said it 2/12/13](https://dontknowmuch.com/2013/02/who-said-it-21213/) - Abraham Lincoln, "Second Annual Message" ("State of the Union") December 1, 1862 The proposed emancipation would shorten the war, perpetuate peace, insure this increase of population, and proportionately the wealth of the country. With these we should pay all the emancipation would cost, together with our other debt, easier than we should pay our other
- [who said it 2/6/13](https://dontknowmuch.com/2013/02/who-said-it-2613/) - Ronald Reagan (born on February 6, 1911) in the State of the Union Address (January 25, 1983) When the Speaker of the House, the Senate majority leader, and I performed the bipartisan—or formed the bipartisan Commission on Social Security, pundits and experts predicted that party divisions and conflicting interests would prevent the Commission from agreeing
- [Who Said It?](https://dontknowmuch.com/2013/01/who-said-it/) - Ronald Reagan, in a January 28, 1986 speech to the nation after the explosion of the Space Shuttle Challenger Source: NASA History Office
- [Who Said It? 1/21/13](https://dontknowmuch.com/2013/01/who-said-it-12113/) - Franklin D. Roosevelt "Second Inaugural Address" (January 20, 1937) This was the first inaugural on January 20th under the 20th Amendment (Ratified on January 23, 1933) Source: Franklin D. Roosevelt: "Inaugural Address.," January 20, 1937. Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project. http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/?pid=15349
- [Who Said It 1/4](https://dontknowmuch.com/2013/01/who-said-it-14/) - President Dwight D. Eisenhower's "Farewell Speech" (January 17, 1961). In this brief speech, Eisenhower famously warned about the "military-industrial complex." This conjunction of an immense military establishment and a large arms industry is new in the American experience. The total influence-economic, political, even spiritual-is felt in every city, every state house, every office of the
- [Who said it 1-6-13](https://dontknowmuch.com/2013/01/who-said-it-1-6-13/) - Franklin D. Roosevelt: "Four Freedoms Speech" (State of the Union: January 6, 1941) The first is freedom of speech and expression--everywhere in the world. The second is freedom of every person to worship God in his own way--everywhere in the world. The third is freedom from want--which, translated into world terms, means economic understandings which
- [Who Said It 12/19](https://dontknowmuch.com/2012/12/who-said-it-1218/) - "These are the times that try men's souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands now, deserve the love and thanks of man and woman." Thomas Paine, American Crisis, No., 1, published December 19, 1776 and read to Washington's
- [The New Abolition of the "Execrable Commerce"](https://dontknowmuch.com/2012/12/the-new-abolition/) - Slaughter of the Innocents “When Herod saw that he had been tricked by the wise men, he was infuriated, and sent and killed all the children in and around Bethlehem who were two years old or under….” (Matthew 1: 16-New Revised Standard Version) December 15 –this past Saturday—marked the 221st anniversary of ratification
- [Who Said It 12-10-12](https://dontknowmuch.com/2012/12/who-said-it-12-10-12/) - President George Washington in his "Farewell Address," originally published in September 1796 in a letter addressed to "The People of the United States" (Source: Avalon Project-Yale Law School) George Washington died on December 14, 1799.
- [Who Said It 12-1-12](https://dontknowmuch.com/2012/12/who-said-it-12-1-12/) - Abraham Lincoln "Second Annual Message to Congress" (December 1, 1862) Source: Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project. http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/?pid=29503. Having announced the Preliminary Emancipation Proclamation in September 1862, Lincoln followed with this message to Congress, or State of the Union message, a long document in which he called for compensated
- [Who Said It 11/26](https://dontknowmuch.com/2012/11/who-said-it-1126/) - Lyndon B. Johnson. Address to the Joint Session of Congress (November 27, 1963) [Source Miller Center-University of Virginia] On November 27, 1963, President Johnson addressed the nation and a joint session of Congress five days after the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.
- [Don’t Know Much About® Secession?](https://dontknowmuch.com/2012/11/dont-know-much-about-secession/) - Since 1892, we’ve been making our schoolchildren say these eloquently simple words: “one Nation indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.” (The “under God” phrase was added in 1954.) But in the wake of last week’s election, the seemingly sacrosanct Pledge of Allegiance has been shunted aside in a small tsunami of calls for secession
- [Who Said it 11/12/12](https://dontknowmuch.com/2012/11/who-said-it-111212/) - Abraham Lincoln, from the Gettysburg Address, delivered November 19, 1863 (Source: Avalon Project-Yale Law School) Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing
- [Who Said It 11/5/12](https://dontknowmuch.com/2012/11/who-said-it-11512/) - All will, of course, arrange themselves under the will of the law, and unite in common efforts for the common good. All, too, will bear in mind this sacred principle, that though the will of the majority is in all cases to prevail, that will to be rightful must be reasonable; that the minority possess
- ["It's the economy, stupid." Maybe not.](https://dontknowmuch.com/2012/11/its-the-economy-stupid-maybe-not/) - Poor old Martin Van Buren, the eighth president --and the first born an American citizen-- was also the first incumbent done in by a terrible economy. As I write for CNN.com, America's eighth president, Martin Van Buren, had the misfortune of occupying the White House during the Panic of 1837, one of the nation's
- [October 30-who said it](https://dontknowmuch.com/2012/10/6212/) - Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence: nor is the law less stable than the fact; if an assault was made to endanger their lives, the law is clear, they had a right to kill
- [Don't Know Much About® the American Presidents- Publishers Weekly *Starred Review](https://dontknowmuch.com/2012/10/dont-know-much-about-the-american-presidents-publishers-weekly-starred-review/) - Publishers Weekly provides a "Starred Review" of Don't Know Much About the American Presidents In this presidential election year, bestselling author Davis (Don't Know Much About History) returns with an absorbing take on the American presidency. Like his previous works, this hefty but breezy compendium offers brief assessments of America's chief executives, accompanied here
- [Who Said It 10/23](https://dontknowmuch.com/2012/10/who-said-it-1023/) - History will teach us ...that of those men who have overturned the liberties of republics, the greatest number have begun their career by paying an obsequious court to the people; commencing demagogues, and ending tyrants. "Publius" (Alexander Hamilton) in Federalist Number One published October 27, 1787
- [Who Said It-10/15/12](https://dontknowmuch.com/2012/10/who-said-it-101512/) - Our goal is not the victory of might, but the vindication of right- not peace at the expense of freedom, but both peace and freedom, here in this Hemisphere, and, we hope, around the world. John F. Kennedy. Address to the American People on the Soviet Arms Buildup in Cuba, October 22, 1962 (Source: John
- [Don't Know Much About® Presidential Debates](https://dontknowmuch.com/2012/10/dont-know-much-about-presidential-debates/) - The first of three presidential debates gave Americans plenty to talk about. The New York Times was not impressed, calling the 90-minute debate : an unenlightening recitation of tired talking points and mendacity. Will the debate, in which President Obama's performance was widely criticized as lackluster and Gov. Romney's as factually deficient, actually have an
- [Who Said It 10-8-2012](https://dontknowmuch.com/2012/10/6124/) - Eleanor Roosevelt "My Day," August 13, 1943 The Eleanor Roosevelt Papers Project Eleanor Roosevelt was born on October 11, 1884.
- [Who Said It? 9/23/12](https://dontknowmuch.com/2012/09/who-said-it-92312/) - President Dwight D. Eisenhower Press Release announcing Executive Order 10734 which ordered troops into Little Rock, Arkansas (9/24/1957) to enforce a federal court desegregation order via the Eisenhower Presidential Library
- [Don't Know Much About® the American Presidents: Road Trip!](https://dontknowmuch.com/2012/09/dont-know-much-about-the-american-presidents-road-trip/) - The grounds at James Madison's Montpelier (Photo: Kenneth C. Davis) Autumn and a presidential campaign are here. That makes it a perfect time to plan a Presidential road trip. I recently wrote this piece suggesting some excellent presidential sites for Fodors.com "How do I get my kids interested in history?" As the author of
- [Who Said It 9/18/12](https://dontknowmuch.com/2012/09/who-said-it-91812/) - George Washington, "Farewell Address," http://millercenter.org/scripps/archive/speeches/detail/3462 (September 19, 1796)
- [Who Said It 9/4/12](https://dontknowmuch.com/2012/09/who-said-it-9412/) - Abraham Lincoln, First Annual Message to Congress (December 3, 1861)
- [Why a Vice President Matters](https://dontknowmuch.com/2012/08/why-a-vice-president-matters/) - video platform video management video solutions video player Does it matter? Now that Mitt Romney has made his Wisconsin Representative Paul Ryan his choice for running mate, we can move on to next question. Does the choice of a running mate really make a difference? According to a recent CBS News/New York Times poll, a
- [The Don't Know Much About® Online Video Series With ABC News](https://dontknowmuch.com/2012/07/new-online-video-series-with-abc-news-debuts/) - The latest video from ABC News celebrates the Fourth of July: In partnership with ABC News, I have begun a new series of videos that will explain presidential history and explore the presidents as well as have some fiun with other aspects of America's Hidden History. The first in this series explains the
- [Don't Know Much About® Thoreau](https://dontknowmuch.com/2012/07/dont-know-much-about-thoreau/) - I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. Born in Concord, Mass. on July 12, 1817, Henry David Thoreau was
- [Don't Know Much About® Labor Day](https://dontknowmuch.com/2012/09/dont-know-much-about-labor-day/) - Just in case you still don't know what exactly we are celebrating today, here are two ways to find out. •A CNN.com article called "The Blood and Sweat Behind Labor Day" (Written last year, it is still timely.) •A new ABC.com video called "Labor Pains"
- [Don't Know Much About® the Declaration](https://dontknowmuch.com/2012/06/the-declaration/) - We hold these truths to be self evident In the run-up to the nation's birthday, here are some things you "need to know" about the Declaration of Independence. -It's not a "piece of paper." The original version of the Declaration was "engrossed" (a word for preparing an official document in a large, clear hand) on
- [Don't Know Much About® Juneteenth](https://dontknowmuch.com/2012/06/dont-know-much-about-juneteenth/) - A Senator from Texas wants to create a new national holiday out of an old tradition: celebrating Emancipation on a day called Juneteenth. It is a holiday still unfamiliar to many Americans. I explain its roots here: "America’s birthday is fast approaching. But let’s not wait for July 4th to light the fireworks. There is
- [Don't Know Much About® Walt Whitman ](https://dontknowmuch.com/2012/05/dont-know-much-about-walt-whitman/) - I hear America singing, the varied carols I hear. Born on May 31, 1819 in West Hills, New York, Walt Whitman changed the way we thought about poetry. He “heard America singing.” And his work has inspired some, bedeviled others (mostly students) and stood as the work of a unique American voice for more
- ["Brief, Shining Moment"-Don't Know Much About® JFK](https://dontknowmuch.com/2012/05/dont-know-much-about-jfk/) - Born on May 29, 1917, John F. Kennedy would have been 95 years old today.
- [Don't Know Much About® Harry S. Truman](https://dontknowmuch.com/2012/05/dont-know-much-about-harry-s-truman/) - Born on May 8, 1884, Harry S. Truman, the 33rd president. Few presidents have changed history as Truman did.
- ["By the Rude Bridge..."](https://dontknowmuch.com/2012/04/by-the-rude-bridge/) - “Listen my children, and you shall hear/of the midnight ride of . . . Joseph Warren?” Okay, that doesn’t scan quite like Longfellow’s original "Paul Revere's Ride." But that’s the problem. In making sure we “hear” about “Revere,” Longfellow --an abolitionist who wrote that poem in 1861 as a call to rally the Union as
- [Franklin's Farewell](https://dontknowmuch.com/2012/04/franklins-farewell/) - Surely America's most fascinating Founding Father, Benjamin Franklin died on April 17, 1790 at the age of 84. Shortly before his death, he wrote a letter to Rev. Ezra Stiles, the President of Yale, summarizing his religious beliefs. Here is my creed. I believe in one God, creator of the universe. That he governs it
- [Don't Know Much About® America's First Presidential Election ](https://dontknowmuch.com/2012/04/dont-know-much-about-americas-first-presidential-election/) - Back in 1789, America hadn't quite figured out the hang of the presidential election just yet. This new ABCNews.com video explains. “Nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.” Benjamin Franklin said that when the Constitution was written back in 1787. But Franklin knew one other sure thing: the first man to
- [Don't Know Much About® the Tulsa "Race Riots"](https://dontknowmuch.com/2012/04/dont-know-much-about-the-tulsa-race-riots/) - In the wake of the Tulsa shootings last week, many Americans have probably not heard of the wave of violence that left as many as three hundred of Tulsa's African Americans dead and thousands more homeless. This episode falls into the category of "America's Hidden History."
- [Don't Know Much About® America's Most Important Book?](https://dontknowmuch.com/2012/03/dont-know-much-about-americas-most-important-book/) - On March 20, 1852, the completed version of Harriet Beecher Stowe's novel Uncle Tom's Cabin, or Life Among the Lowly was published in book form. It had begun to appear in serialized form in June 1851 in the abolitionist weekly The National Era. Since its first appearance in serial form and as a book 160
- [Libraries: A Necessity not a luxury](https://dontknowmuch.com/2012/03/library-advocacy-day/) - I am in Albany, New York today as part of Library Advocacy Day. Once again, libraries are the first on the chopping block and last to be restored come austerity time. But choking off funding for libraries is like eating our "seed corn" --the thing that we need to grow and produce more. As a
- [The Electoral College--Not a Party School](https://dontknowmuch.com/2012/02/electoral-college-not-a-party-school/) - The Electoral College is NOT a Party School Grown men turn weak and stammer when asked who makes up the Electoral College. The subject of a once-every-four-years debate over its existence, the institution plods on, an enigma to those Americans who think the voters decide who will be president. Here's a quick video with a
- [225 Words that Changed the World: Happy Seuss Day](https://dontknowmuch.com/2012/03/seuss-day/) - If your book was turned down by more than 40 publishers, “what would you do?” Become Dr. Seuss?
- [Joyce, Jesus, Goddesses & Groundhogs](https://dontknowmuch.com/2012/02/joyce-jesus-goddesses-groundhogs/) - Today is an auspicious date on the literary and liturgical calendars. James Joyce was born in Dublin on February 2, 1882. On top of that it Candlemas and Groundhog Day.
- [Don't Know Much About® Jack London](https://dontknowmuch.com/2012/01/dont-know-much-about-jack-london-2/) - You probably remember Jack London for his tales of dogs in the Alaskan wilderness. But London was also caught up in a protest movement called "Coxey's Army," the "Occupy Wall Street" of the 1890s.
- [More Christmas Myths: Why 12 Days?](https://dontknowmuch.com/2011/12/twelve-christmas-myths-8-why-12-days/) - One of the specific ways that Solstice celebrations from ancient times are still remembered is by the "Twelve Days of Christmas."
- [Christmas Myths (5): "Oh Fir Tree, Oh Fir Tree"](https://dontknowmuch.com/2011/12/christmas-myths-5-oh-fir-tree-oh-fir-tree/) - Walking through midtown Manhattan yesterday, we tried to pass the great tree at Rockefeller Center --just to get a glimpse. As always, it was drawing a big crowd, the streets were packed and we gave up. And as always, this enormous and dazzling display of lights makes me pose an old question: There weren’t any
- [The 12 Myths of Christmas (1)](https://dontknowmuch.com/2011/12/the-12-myths-of-christmas-1/) - Today, December 6, is the feast of Saint Nicholas. It makes a perfect day to consider one of the first of the “myths” of Christmas.
- [DON’T KNOW MUCH ABOUT ELECTING THE U.S. PRESIDENT? A Classroom Skype Invitation (ALL SESSIONS BOOKED)](https://dontknowmuch.com/2011/11/dont-know-much-about-electing-the-u-s-president/) - The Presidential Election of 2012 is only about a year away. That makes this a good time to get a handle on America’s crazy quilt of election history and rules.
- [Don't Know Much About® St. Augustine -- Hidden History of America's "Oldest City"](https://dontknowmuch.com/2011/09/dont-know-much-about®-st-augustine-americas-oldest-city/) - On September 8, 1565, a group of Spanish sailors, soldiers, priests and colonists landed in Florida and celebrated mass --the "beginning" of Christianity in America, as St. Augustine's boosters tell us. This is the founding day of what is called "America's oldest permanent European settlement." The Spanish colonists were led by Admiral Pedro Menendez de Aviles. But just what were Menendez and his 800-strong group doing in Florida?
- ["The Blood and Sweat Behind Labor Day" (CNN.com)](https://dontknowmuch.com/2011/09/the-blood-and-sweat-behind-labor-day/) - "To most Americans, the first Monday in September means a three-day weekend and the last hurrah of summer, a final outing at the shore before school begins, a family picnic. But Labor Day was born in a time when work was no picnic. As America was moving from farms to factories in the Industrial Age, there was a long, violent, often-deadly struggle for fundamental workers' rights, a struggle that in many ways was America's "other civil war."
- [Don't Know Much About Thoreau](https://dontknowmuch.com/2011/08/dont-know-much-about®-thoreau/) - I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. On August 9, 1854, Henry David Thoreau published Walden: Or, Life
- [Don't Know Much About Salman Rushdie](https://dontknowmuch.com/2011/08/dont-know-much-about-salman-rushdie/) - On today's date, August 15, in 1947, at midnight, India and Pakistan were born. The partition of mostly Hindu India and Islamic Pakistan created decades of war and mistrust. But that moment also opens Midnight's Children, Salman Rushdie's fabulous 1981 novel and one of the great books of our times --a tale of a boy
- [Don't Know Much About the 19th Amendment](https://dontknowmuch.com/2011/08/dont-know-much-about®-the-19th-amendment-2/) - Ninety-one years ago, on AUGUST 18, 1920, Tennessee ratified the 19th Amendment, giving it the needed number of states to become part of the U.S. Constitution. Finally, all American women could enjoy the basic right of citizenship. It was a victory in a long struggle for "suffrage" fought by the "Suffragists." Who were the
- ["Is there hope for America in era of broken trust?"](https://dontknowmuch.com/2011/08/is-there-hope-for-america-in-era-of-broken-trust/) - We are in an era of broken trust. The deep divisions in Washington, evident most recently in the wrangling over the debt ceiling, drove this home. Opinion polls in the wake of the debate confirmed the worst news for the Beltway Crowd: Confidence in Congress has plunged to an all-time low.
- [Don't Know Much About® The Gulf of Tonkin Attacks](https://dontknowmuch.com/2011/08/the-gulf-of-tonkin-attacks/) - When Administrations Lie, Thousands Die. That is today's history lesson on the date of a controversial "attack" on the U.S. Navy in the Gulf of Tonkin off the cost of North Vietnam. That attack led to the passage of the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution a few days later and America's deepening involvement in the war
- [Robert McNamara and the Vietnam War: A Reading List](https://dontknowmuch.com/2009/07/robert-mcnamara-and-the-vietnam-war-a-reading-list/) - For many Americans, the news of Robert McNamara's death at age 93 on July 6th brought back the whole cascade of difficult memories about what the war in Vietnam meant to this country. Here is McNamara's New York Times obituary: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/07/us/07mcnamara.html?hp But for many others, especially younger Americans, the Vietnam War has fallen into the
- [CNN.com: "Why US is Not a Christian Nation" ](https://dontknowmuch.com/2011/07/cnn-com-why-us-is-not-a-christian-nation/) - As America celebrates its birthday on July 4, the timeless words of Thomas Jefferson will surely be invoked to remind us of our founding ideals -- that "All men are created equal" and are "endowed by their Creator" with the right to "Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness." These phrases, a cherished part of
- [Historical Libraries, Societies and Museums: "Beam me IN!"](https://dontknowmuch.com/2011/07/libraries-and-historical-museums-beam-me-in/) - “BEAM ME IN, SCOTTY!” Apologies to Captain Kirk and Star Trek. I know it’s really, “Beam me UP, Scotty.” For more than 20 years, I have been traveling the country, visiting museums, historical societies, bookstores, libraries and teacher conferences to share my love for history, geography and all the subjects I have covered in the
- [Don't Know Much About History -21 Years, Still Going Strong!](https://dontknowmuch.com/2011/07/dont-know-much-about-21-years-young/) - My how time flies! When Don’t Know Much About History was first published in 1990, it was simply meant to serve as a fresh new take on American history. Busting myths, with a dose of humor and real stories about real people, the book was conceived as an antidote to the dull, dreary textbooks we
- [A Case of "Loving" Revisited ](https://dontknowmuch.com/2011/06/a-case-of-loving-revisited/) - Last week's historic passage of a "gay marriage" law in New York state meant that six states and the District of Columbia now permit same sex marriage; a number of other states allow a form of civil union. The addition of New York doubled the number of Americans living in states with same sex marriage.
- [Today in History: Stonewall](https://dontknowmuch.com/2009/06/today-in-history-emma-helen-and-stonewall/) - There have been many remarkable changes in this country and the world over the past 40 years-- an African American president, the woman's right movement, the end of the Soviet Union and South Africa's apartheid, to name a few. But as a person who has lived most of those 40 years in New York City's
- [America's Founding Fathers: A List of Fascinating Facts](https://dontknowmuch.com/2011/06/fourth-of-july-fun-facts/) - The “Founding Fathers” were real men, not those faces chiseled in stone on Mount Rushmore. Here are some little known but fascinating facts you may not know about some of the men who were present at the birth of the nation --including some whose names you may not know!
- [Bloomsday (2011)](https://dontknowmuch.com/2011/06/bloomsday-2011/) - "Stately, plump Buck Mulligan. . ." With those words, James Joyce (February 2, 1882-January 13, 1941) opened Ulysses, chosen in 1999 as the greatest novel of the 20th century by the Modern Library. The novel follows Leopold Bloom and Stephen Dedalus on their wanderings through Dublin on a single day --June 16 1904. That makes
- [Happy Bloomsday 2011!](https://dontknowmuch.com/2010/06/happy-bloomsday/) - "Stately, plump Buck Mulligan. . ." With those words, James Joyce (February 2, 1882-January 13, 1941) opened Ulysses, chosen in 1999 as the greatest novel of the 20th century by the Modern Library. The novel follows Leopold Bloom and Stephen Dedalus on their wanderings through Dublin on a single day --June 16 1904. That makes
- [Don't Know Much About History... Still!](https://dontknowmuch.com/2011/06/dont-know-much-about-history-still/) - The latest in the perennial drumbeat of bad news about failing American History grades in American schools has just been released. And it is as bad as ever. So the first simple question is:Why Are we so Bad at History?
- ["Beam me IN, Scotty" --Library Visits with Author Kenneth C. Davis](https://dontknowmuch.com/2011/06/beam-me-in-scotty-library-visits-with-author-kenneth-c-davis/) - AN OPEN LETTER TO LIBRARIANS— "BEAM ME IN, SCOTTY!" Apologies to Captain Kirk and Star Trek. I know it's really, "Beam me UP, Scotty." For more than 20 years, I have been traveling the country to visit libraries, bookstores, museums, schools and librarian conferences to share my love for history, geography and all the subjects
- ["Palin and the Truth About Paul Revere" (CNN.com)](https://dontknowmuch.com/2011/06/palin-and-the-truth-about-paul-revere-cnn-com/) - "Listen, my children, and you shall hear / Of the midnight ride of Paul Revere, / On the eighteenth of April, in Seventy-five, / Hardly a man is now alive / Who remembers that famous day and year." "If nothing else is right about Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's poem, first published more than 85 years after
- ["Beam me IN, Scotty" --Classroom Skype Visits with Author Kenneth C. Davis](https://dontknowmuch.com/2011/03/beam-me-in-scotty-classroom-skype-visits-by-author-kenneth-c-davis/) - AN OPEN LETTER TO TEACHERS— BEAM ME IN, SCOTTY! Apologies to Captain Kirk. I know it's really, "Beam me UP, Scotty." For nearly 10 years, whenever possible, I have been traveling the country to schools, libraries, museums and teacher conferences to share my love for history, geography and all the subjects I have covered in
- [Juneteenth](https://dontknowmuch.com/2009/06/juneteenth/) - Happy Juneteenth! Since 1865, June 19th has served as another kind of Independence Day. It is a day that celebrates the end of slavery in America. On June 19, 1865, Union General Gordon Granger informed former slaves in the area from the Gulf of Mexico to Galveston, Texas that they were free. Abraham Lincoln had
- [Don't Know Much About® "Brown v. Board of Education"](https://dontknowmuch.com/2011/05/dont-know-much-about®-brown-v-board-of-education/) - Every day, eight-year-old Linda Brown wondered why she had to ride five miles to school when her bus passed the perfectly lovely Sumner Elementary School, just four blocks from her home. When her father tried to enroll her in Sumner for fourth grade, the Topeka, Kansas, school authorities just said no. In 1951, Linda Brown
- [Don't Know Much About® John Brown](https://dontknowmuch.com/2011/05/dont-know-much-about®-john-brown/) - Abolitionist martyr? Or terrorist? Born on May 9, 1800, John Brown has always posed that awkward question in American history. I am quite certain that the crimes of this guilty land will never be purged away but with blood. --John Brown at his execution (November 2, 1859) Viewed through history as a lunatic, psychotic,
- [Teachers--Join the Conversation](https://dontknowmuch.com/2011/05/teachers-join-the-conversation/) - On Tuesday May 17 at 4 PM (Eastern Time), I will be participating in my first webinar via the National Council for the Social Studies. Register here "Bestselling author Ken Davis invites teachers to join in an interactive discussion about teaching American History in more exciting ways. Davis, known for his down-to-earth, non-academic style,
- [Happy Birthday, Harper Lee](https://dontknowmuch.com/2011/04/happy-birthday-harper-lee/) - Born April 28, 1926 in Monroeville, Alabama --Nelle Harper Lee, author of To Kill a Mockingbird. If you only publish one book, may as well make it a good one. For Harper Lee it was To Kill A Mockingbird (1960), the story of Scout Finch, a girl growing up in a small Southern town. Scout
- [Don't Know Much About® Poetic Last Lines](https://dontknowmuch.com/2011/04/dont-know-much-about®-poetic-last-lines/) - It's the final week of National Poetry Month. So fittingly, here's a Pop Quiz on some notable closing lines of poems. “Nevermore!” It might be difficult to end a poem on a more dramatic note than Edgar Allen Poe did in “The Raven.” Can you name the poets who created these ending lines? Bonus
- [Poetry Pop Quiz #2](https://dontknowmuch.com/2011/04/poetry-pop-quiz-2/) - In honor of National Poetry Month in April, I posted a quiz on poetic first lines earlier this month. Here is another. (If you've been following my Poem of the Day posts all month on my Facebook page or on Twitter, you should recognize several of these. All are worth reading. Or rereading!) “Gather ye
- [Don't Know Much About® the Bay of Pigs](https://dontknowmuch.com/2011/04/dont-know-much-about®-the-bay-of-pigs/) - In the long catalog of America's recent foreign policy fiascoes, the Bay of Pigs Invasion occupies a lofty position among the worst debacles. The 50th anniversary of the failed CIA-sponsored invasion of Cuba begun on April 17, 1961 is now being quietly marked. In Cuba, it is still a cause for celebration. During the past
- [Don’t Know Much About® Poetic First Lines](https://dontknowmuch.com/2011/04/don’t-know-much-about®-poetic-first-lines/) - "April," as T.S. Eliot told us, "is the cruellest month." It is also National Poetry Month. That idea was inaugurated in 1996 by the Academy of American Poets. So to test your poetic wits, a quick Pop Quiz on some famous first poetic lines... Then go read the whole poems. “Let us go then, you
- [Don't Know Much About® the "Marshall Plan"](https://dontknowmuch.com/2011/04/dont-know-much-about-the-marshall-plan/) - On April 3, 1948, President Truman signed into law the Foreign Assistance Act of 1948, otherwise known as The Marshall Plan, widely considered the most important foreign policy success of the postwar period. In the current climate of the GOP's "Just Say No" deficit-cutting stance and widespread opposition to foreign aid of any kind, would
- [Today in History: "We the People" (v 2.0)](https://dontknowmuch.com/2011/03/today-in-history-we-the-people-v-2-0/) - On March 11, 1861, the delegates at the Congress of the Confederate States of America, meeting in Montgomery, Alabama, adopted a Constitution. Working under duress, they used the U.S. Constitution almost verbatim as their template. But they made some changes... What was the difference between the Confederate and U.S. Constitutions? One week after Lincoln’s inaugural address,
- ["We are not enemies but friends."](https://dontknowmuch.com/2011/03/we-are-not-enemies-but-friends/) - “That there are persons in one section or another who seek to destroy the Union at all events and are glad of any pretext to do it I will neither affirm nor deny; but if there be such, I need address no word to them. To those, however, who really love the Union may I
- [Can Socks Save the Union?](https://dontknowmuch.com/2011/03/can-socks-save-the-union/) - With all the talk abut union-busting and collective bargaining in the controversy over public employee unions, those union ladies of the ILGWU came to mind when I was looking for some socks the other day
- [Today in History: The Birthday of the Confederacy](https://dontknowmuch.com/2011/02/today-in-history-the-birthday-of-the-confederacy/) - The Confederacy was officially born on February 4, 1861 when six breakaway states created the Confederate States of America. What was different about the Confederate Constitution?
- [Don't Know Much About® "Lewis Carroll"](https://dontknowmuch.com/2011/01/dont-know-much-about®-lewis-carroll/) - "O frabjous day" Hard to believe, but the author of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland had a reputation for being dull and uninspiring at his day job: Mathematics Lecturer at Oxford University. But when Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, born on January 27, 1832, mathematician, took on the pen name “Lewis Carroll,” he dreamed up fantastical stories that
- ["Sicko Ants on a Crucifix"](https://dontknowmuch.com/2011/01/sicko-ants-on-a-crucifix/) - Censorship is riding high. It is once again as American as apple pie, assassinations and anti-immigrant vitriol.
- [Don't Know Much About® Poe](https://dontknowmuch.com/2011/01/dont-know-much-about®-poe/) - On the anniversary of his birth in 1809, a quick quiz in honor Edgar Allen Poe. Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849) wrote some of the darkest, strangest poems and stories in the English language. His narrators, who generally speak in the first person, have led many readers to confuse Poe with his deeply disturbed characters: opium
- [Are you Teddy for some football?](https://dontknowmuch.com/2011/01/are-you-teddy-for-some-football/) - I love history. And I love football. That's what led me to put the two together in this recent New York Times op-ed about the violence and scandals that threatened American football back in 1905. In it I discuss how it took the hands-on involvement of President Theodore Roosevelt to help keep football from being
- [The N-word is for "Nonsense"](https://dontknowmuch.com/2011/01/the-n-word-is-nonsense/) - A work that aspires, however, humbly, to the condition of art should carry its justification in every line. The great novelist Joseph Conrad wrote those words in a literary manifesto called “A Preface to the Nigger of the 'Narcissus.’ ” Oops, I mean “Slave of the Narcissus.” Or should it be “The Children of the
- [Truman Didn't Ask. He Just Told](https://dontknowmuch.com/2010/12/truman-didnt-ask-he-just-told/) - The Senate's shameful vote yesterday which would have put an end to the "Don't Ask. Don't Tell" policy immediately brought to mind the 1948 decision by President Harry S. Truman to desegregate the U.S. military.
- [Don't Know Much About "A date which will live in infamy"](https://dontknowmuch.com/2010/12/today-in-history-a-date-which-will-live-in-infamy/) - "Yesterday, December 7, 1941—a date which will live in infamy—the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan."
- [Dueling Christmas Billboards](https://dontknowmuch.com/2010/12/dueling-christmas-billboards/) - There is a new skirmish in the so-called "Christmas Wars." If you are coming to see the Big Tree in Rockefeller Center by way of the Lincoln Tunnel, you'll be greeted by two starkly opposing views of the Christmas Season. As the Daily News reported on December 2, an atheist group placed a billboard at the approach to the Lincoln Tunnel saying "You know it's a myth." A Catholic group responded with a billboard of its own saying "You know it's real," with a picture of Jesus and Mary.
- [Today In History: Don't Ride the Bus](https://dontknowmuch.com/2010/12/today-in-history-dont-ride-the-bus/) - Fifty-five years ago, on December 1, 1955, an African-American seamstress would not budge. And all America shook. At the top of my short list of alternative national holidays, I would propose December 1st as Rosa Parks Day. History is taught as the record of presidents, kings and generals. But sometimes it is the extraordinary story
- [Debs Day? Socialist, Convict, Presidential Candidate](https://dontknowmuch.com/2010/11/socialist-convict-presidential-candidate-eugene-v-debs/) - We like to celebrate heroes of conscience, like Thoreau, Ghandi and Martin Luther King, Jr. Unless they might be a "Socialist troublemaker" --like Eugene V. Debs, born this date in 1855. The epithet "Socialist" seems to be one of the worst things a politician can be called these days. In the early 20th century, Eugene
- [Civics Primer #6: Another Quiz and Two Bedrock Rights](https://dontknowmuch.com/2010/11/civics-primer-6-another-quiz-and-two-bedrock-rights/) - As we head into tomorrow’s election, I finish my brief Civics Refresher Course with five more questions from the Naturalization Test given by the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Service. 1. What stops one branch of government from becoming too powerful? (Two officially acceptable answers) 2. Under the U.S. Constitution, some powers belong to the states.
- [Cruel and Unusual- (Civics Primer Part 5)](https://dontknowmuch.com/2010/10/cruel-and-unusual-civics-primer-part-5/) - No, learning about Civics and American History is not the Cruel and Unusual part. Actually, when done properly, this stuff can be fun and interesting. Following up on my earlier lessons about the Bill of Rights, today's focus is on two more of the fundamental rights of the accused found in the Seventh and Eighth
- [Pleading the Fifth (Civics Primer Part 4)](https://dontknowmuch.com/2010/10/pleading-the-fifth-civics-primer-part-4/) - My Civics Primer has been focusing on the Bill of Rights and continues with two more Amendments that deal with the rights of the accused --including perhaps the most famous of all, the Fifth Amendment.
- [After the Veep, who comes next? (Civics Primer Part 3)](https://dontknowmuch.com/2010/10/after-the-veep-who-comes-next-civics-primer-part-3/) - Someone asked me recently what Americans need to know about our history and government. The answer is easy. There's a test for that. It's called the Naturalization Test, given by the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, and applicants for citizenship must pass it. Could most American-born citizens pass it? In my experience testing audiences with
- [Bare Arms? Arm Bears? A Second Amendment Guide (Civics Primer #2)](https://dontknowmuch.com/2010/10/bare-arms-arm-bears-a-second-amendment-guide-civics-primer-2/) - There is little doubt that the Founders and Framers, in a time when there was no standing army, expected men to have a gun at the ready to defend the country. But does that 18th century logic still hold in a country with a standing army, state militias and local police forces? And does the high level of American gun violence (more than 31,000 firearms fatalities in 2006, according to the CDC) mean it is time to reassess an idea that made sense more than 200 years ago?
- [Don't Know Much About the First Amendment: A Civics Primer](https://dontknowmuch.com/2010/10/dont-know-much-about-the-first-amendment-a-civics-primer/) - Who is the Vice President? How many Senators are there? How many Supreme Court Justices? A new online survey suggests many Americans can't answer those Civics 101 questions. That is a point underscored in a New York Times Week in Review article yesterday that points out how many Americans don't know what the First Amendment
- [Don't Know Much About® the Bible--STILL!](https://dontknowmuch.com/2010/09/dont-know-much-about®-the-bible-still/) - For a nation that is seemingly wild about religion, we are once again shown to be "Clueless Nation."
- [A Tradition of Tolerance? Not really.](https://dontknowmuch.com/2010/09/a-tradition-of-tolerance/) - We've been hearing a lot about America's tradition of religious freedom and tolerance lately. But for centuries, religion has been used as a weapon to discriminate and cudgel "non- believers" and "heathens," many of whom came to America in search of religious freedom they never found. The battle over faith in the public square started long before the "Ground Zero Mosque."
- [Don't Know Much About® THE STONO REBELLION](https://dontknowmuch.com/2010/09/today-in-history-the-stono-rebellion/) - For those still stuck with the Gone With the Wind view of American slavery, September 9 is the anniversary of one of the largest and most violent slave insurrections in American History.
- [Don't Know Much About® the 19th Amendment](https://dontknowmuch.com/2010/08/dont-know-much-about®-the-19th-amendment/) - It took 144 years after Independence. But on August 26, 1920--90 years ago-- the "other half" of the country got their rights. The 19th Amendment to the Constitution, giving women the vote, was declared in effect on this date by the Secretary of State. The Amendment had actually been ratified earlier in the month when
- [Today in History: Majority Misrule](https://dontknowmuch.com/2010/08/majority-misrule/) - On August 19, 1934, 9 out of 10 Germans endorsed Adolf Hilter's assumption of absolute power. Eighty-nine and nine-tenths per cent of the German voters endorsed in yesterday's plebiscite Chancellor Hitler's assumption of greater power than has ever been possessed by any other ruler in modern times. Nearly 10 per cent indicated their disapproval. The
- [Don't Know Much About® Alfred Hitchcock](https://dontknowmuch.com/2010/08/dont-know-much-about®-alfred-hitchcock/) - Somehow I think Alfred Hitchcock might enjoy knowing his birthday falls on Friday the 13th this year. As a child of the 50s and 60s, I think Alfred Hitchcock's television series --more than his movies-- had a tremendous impact on my sensibilities. Only later did I come to fully appreciate his movie masterpieces. Here's a
- [TODAY IN HISTORY: The "Negro Riots" in Watts](https://dontknowmuch.com/2010/08/today-in-history-the-negro-riots-in-watts/) - It started with a "DWB"-- "driving while black." On August 11, 1965, an all-too-frequent stop of a young black man exploded into one of the worst urban riots in American history. Where: Watts was a rundown district of shabby houses built near the highway approaching Los Angeles International Airport. Ninety-eight percent black, Watts was stewing
- [Gay Marriage: A Question of "Loving"](https://dontknowmuch.com/2009/04/a-question-of-loving/) - AS historical anniversaries go, April 10, 1967 may not seem like a date we all should remember. But that was the day that the U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments in the case Loving v. Virginia. On June 12, 1967, the Court issued its ruling in the case, striking down state laws prohibiting interracial marriage
- [Of "Mosques," Memorials and Burning Convents](https://dontknowmuch.com/2010/07/of-mosques-memorials-and-burning-convents/) - In polite society, one supposedly never discusses religion or politics. In America, it seems we can rarely separate the two. The latest fracas over faith in the public square involves the plans for Cordoba House, an Islamic Center, including a “mosque,” to be built two blocks from Ground Zero. Proposed to bridge the differences between
- [TODAY IN HISTORY: Don't Know Much About® Tocqueville in America](https://dontknowmuch.com/2010/07/today-in-history-tocquevilles-america/) - Happy Birthday, Monsieur Tocqueville (born July 29, 1805; died April 16, 1859) Observing a Choctaw tribe—the old, the sick, the wounded, and newborns among them—forced to cross an ice-choked Mississippi River during the harsh winter, Alexis de Tocqueville once wrote, “In the whole scene, there was an air of destruction, something which betrayed a final
- [TODAY IN HISTORY: Don't Know Much About® Bastille Day!](https://dontknowmuch.com/2010/07/today-in-history-dont-know-much-about-bastille-day/) - Vive la France! On July 14, 1789, an angry crowd stormed a state prison in Paris that stood as a symbol of royal tyranny. They surrounded the Bastille in order to seize the gunpowder stored inside. Troops fired on the rebels, but the people overpowered them. The bloody French Revolution had begun. The people of
- [Don't Know Much About® "Papa"](https://dontknowmuch.com/2010/07/dont-know-much-about-papa/) - Ernest Hemingway, the larger-than-life American novelist, was born on July 21 in Oak Park, Illinois in 1899. They called him “Papa.” One of America’s most successful and admired novelists, Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961) once compared his bare-bones style to an iceberg: "There is seven-eighths of it under water for every part that shows." Beneath Hemingway’s famously
- [Raising the Star and Stripes in California](https://dontknowmuch.com/2010/07/raising-the-star-and-stripes-in-california/) - On July 7, 1846, the United States Navy sailed into Monterey Bay and announced that the Republic of California was now a part of the United States. Just like that, the future state of California fell from Mexico's hands into its American future. The story of California's shift from Spain to Mexico and then to American control is an extraordinary one. The last part of that story, the annexation of California by the United States, is due largely to the exploits of a somewhat forgotten man, John Charles Frémont and his extraordinary wife Jessie Benton Frémont.
- [Independence Week: The Most Important Signer You Never Heard of](https://dontknowmuch.com/2010/07/independence-week-the-most-important-signer-you-never-heard-of/) - In another installment of my Independence Week Refresher Course, I focus on a man who most of us never heard of. But the United States of America exists, in part, because of his efforts. Of the 56 men who signed the Declaration of Independence, a few names are familiar. Most Americans, if pressed, can probably
- [ "Self Evident Truths" --The Real National Treasure](https://dontknowmuch.com/2010/06/self-evident-truths-the-real-national-treasure/) - As we pursue happiness and work our way towards Independence Day on July 4th, here are a few fascinating facts about the document that created the United States of America and the day that the nation was born. This is the first of a series of blogs about the Declaration. leading up to Independence Day.
- [Today in History: Murder in Mississippi](https://dontknowmuch.com/2010/06/today-in-history-murder-in-mississippi/) - Did Mississippi Burning really happen? On June 21, 1964, three young civil rights workers were murdered in Philadelphia, Mississippi. Their bodies were discovered a few weeks later. Here's is the original New York Times story about the crime: http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/big/0621.html#article If Hollywood gets its way, the civil rights movement was saved when Gene Hackman and Willem
- [Highlights in the History of a Christian Nation](https://dontknowmuch.com/2010/05/highlights-in-the-history-of-a-christian-nation/) - In a recent Fox News colloquy, former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin explained America’s religious traditions to Bill O’Reilly. Discussing the National Day of Prayer in May 2010, both underscored their belief that America is a “Christian Nation,” founded upon Judeo-Christian principles and the Ten Commandments. Speaking of the Founders and the nation's founding documents, Palin
- [DKMA Minute #18 The Bible Riots](https://dontknowmuch.com/2010/05/dkma-minute-18-the-bible-riots/) - [podcast format="video"]http://www.dontknowmuch.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/Bible-Riots-DKMAM.mov[/podcast]
- [DKMA Minute #12 Presidents Day (Part 1)](https://dontknowmuch.com/2010/03/presidents-day-part-i/) - [podcast format="video"]http://www.dontknowmuch.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/DKMAM-Presidents-1.mov[/podcast]
- [DKMA Minute #13 Presidents Day (Part 2)](https://dontknowmuch.com/2010/03/presidents-day-part-2/) - [podcast format="video"]http://www.dontknowmuch.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/DKMAM-Presidents-2.mov[/podcast]
- [DKMA Minute #10 Pilgrims 101](https://dontknowmuch.com/2010/03/thanksgiving-part-1/) - [podcast format="video"]http://www.dontknowmuch.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/DKMAM-Thanksgiving-1.mov[/podcast]
- [DKMA Minute #9 Halloween: The Hidden History](https://dontknowmuch.com/2010/03/halloween/) - [podcast format="video"]http://www.dontknowmuch.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/DKMAM-Halloween.mov[/podcast]
- [DKMA Minute #14 Why We Hide Our History](https://dontknowmuch.com/2010/03/historical-truth/) - [podcast format="video"]http://www.dontknowmuch.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/DKMAM-Historical-Truth.mov[/podcast]
- [DKMA Minute #8 The World is a Pear: Columbus Day](https://dontknowmuch.com/2010/03/columbus-day/) - [podcast format="video"]http://www.dontknowmuch.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/DKMAM-Columbus-Day.mov[/podcast]
- [DKMA Minute #6 Labor Pains](https://dontknowmuch.com/2010/03/2316/) - [podcast format="video"]http://www.dontknowmuch.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/DKMAM-Labor-Pains.mov[/podcast]
- [DKMA Minute #5 A Touch of Frost](https://dontknowmuch.com/2010/03/a-touch-of-frost/) - [podcast format="video"]http://www.dontknowmuch.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/DKMAM-Frost.mov[/podcast]
- [DKMA Minute #3 A Hidden History Field Trip](https://dontknowmuch.com/2010/03/field-trip/) - [podcast format="video"]http://www.dontknowmuch.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/DKMAM-Field-Trip.mov[/podcast]
- [The Founding Immigrants (Revisited)](https://dontknowmuch.com/2010/04/the-founding-immigrants-revisited/) - Scratch the surface of the current immigration debate and beneath the posturing lies a dirty secret. Anti-immigrant sentiment is older than America itself. Born before the nation, this abiding fear of the ''huddled masses'' emerged in the early republic and gathered steam into the 19th and 20th centuries, when nativist political parties, exclusionary laws and the Ku Klux Klan swept the land.
- [Patriots' Day: It's Not About the Marathon](https://dontknowmuch.com/2010/04/patriots-day-its-not-about-the-marathon/) - As we reach another Patriots' Day, the day that commemorates the beginning of the American Revolution on April 19, 1775, here's a little refresher about some of the hidden history of this most important day in American History.
- [The Day Baseball --and America-- Changed](https://dontknowmuch.com/2010/04/the-day-baseball-and-america-changed/) - The words "sports hero" get thrown around a lot in America. But today is a day to celebrate a real sports hero, Jackie Robinson.
- [Ghosts of Confederates Past](https://dontknowmuch.com/2010/04/ghosts-of-confederates-past/) - On April 9, 1865, Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee surrendered his army to Union General Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox Court House in Virginia. After four years of Civil War, with his Army of Northern Virginia practically starving and reeling under the onslaught of Union pressure from Grant's superior forces, Robert E. Lee had to contemplate the inevitable
- [The Power of the Press: My Lai and Seymour Hersh](https://dontknowmuch.com/2010/04/the-power-of-the-press-seymour-hersh-and-my-lai/) - A few weeks ago, I wrote about the anniversary of the American attack on My Lai during the Vietnam war. Today April 8, is the birthday of the journalist who broke that story, Seymour Hersh. In his honor, I want to remind you of My Lai and what one of the great journalists of our
- [Today in History-Shiloh: "The slaughter on both sides is immense."](https://dontknowmuch.com/2010/04/today-in-history-shiloh-the-slaughter-on-both-sides-is-immense/) - In the Bible, "Shiloh" meant "place of peace." That word took a whole new terrible meaning on April 7, 1862, when Union forces led by Gen. Ulysses S. Grant defeated the Confederates at the Battle of Shiloh in Tennessee, near Corinth.
- [TODAY IN HISTORY: Isabella and the Jews of Spain](https://dontknowmuch.com/2010/03/today-in-history-isabella-and-the-jews-of-spain/) - "In fourteen-hundred and ninety-two, Columbus sailed the ocean blue." And Isabella banished the Jews. On March 31, 1492, Isabella and Ferdinand issued the royal edict that forced Jews to convert and be baptized or leave Spain. Born in April 1451, this remarkable queen was the daughter of Castille’s King Juan. She came of age in
- [Happy "Frost Day"](https://dontknowmuch.com/2010/03/dont-know-much-about-robert-frost/) - “I had a lover’s quarrel with the world.” How about a national holiday today, celebrating poetry, in honor of Robert Frost --born March 26, 1874. Apples, birches, hayfields and stone walls; simple features like these make up the landscape of four-time Pulitzer Prize winner Robert Frost’s poetry. Known as a poet of New England, Frost
- [Don’t Know Much About Jack Kerouac](https://dontknowmuch.com/2010/03/don’t-know-much-about-jack-kerouac/) - Lots of people, including Bob Dylan, say he changed their lives. Born this date, March 12, in 1922, Jack Kerouac.
- [Defending "terrorists": What would the Founders do?](https://dontknowmuch.com/2010/03/defending-terrorists-what-would-the-founders-do/) - In the midst of all the “Tea Party” chatter these days, it is a tad surprising that the anniversary of another significant Boston event went largely unnoticed last week. It was, after all, 240 years ago on March 5, 1770, that the Boston Massacre took place. And what was the “Boston Massacre,” class? A mob
- [Don't Know Much About John Steinbeck](https://dontknowmuch.com/2010/02/dont-know-much-about-john-steinbeck/) - Born on February 27, 1902 in Salinas, California in 1902, was a writer I consider a major personal influence. John Steinbeck built his reputation writing about the struggles of down-and-out people: Dust Bowl farmers and pearl divers, prostitutes, jobless migrants, and Depression-era hobos.
- [Washington's "Confession"](https://dontknowmuch.com/2010/02/washingtons-confession/) - I hope we all know that the cherry tree story is a legend, made up by a pseudobiographer but chiseled into American folklore. But there is a true story about a young George Washington that most of us never hear. It is the story of his first actual military experience and his signing of a "murder confession." It is not only more interesting than the cherry tree story but a lot more revealing.
- ["He told the truth, mainly." --Huck Finn](https://dontknowmuch.com/2010/02/he-told-the-truth-mainly-huck-finn/) - Persons attempting to find a motive in this narrative will be prosecuted; persons attempting to find a moral in it will be banished; persons attempting to find a plot in it will be shot. --Notice at the opening of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn America doesn’t have a national holiday to honor a writer. But if
- [A Presidential Library](https://dontknowmuch.com/2010/02/a-presidential-library/) - The recent success of such award-winning and bestselling presidential biographies as American Lion by Jon Meacham, John Adams by David McCullough as well as Doris Kearns Goodwin’s portrait of Lincoln’s Cabinet, Team of Rivals, are all excellent reminders of our fascination with the Presidency. And a tribute to the value of great historians. With Presidents
- [Ordering Coffee Changes the World](https://dontknowmuch.com/2010/02/ordering-coffee-changes-the-world/) - Never underestimate the power of four teenagers. Fifty years ago, a deliberate act of disobedience by four college kids shook America.
- ["Tea Bagging" through History](https://dontknowmuch.com/2010/01/tea-bagging-through-history/) - A news report that a “Tea Party” convention planned for February shows signs of unraveling reminds me of another group of “tea baggers” from American History. They had also unraveled in late January. But the year was 1778. It began as a populist uprising against –surprise, surprise—the bankers and lawyers who were making the rules back then.
- [Don't Know Much About Roe v. Wade](https://dontknowmuch.com/2010/01/dont-know-much-about-roe-v-wade/) - On January 22, 1973 --37 years ago-- the Supreme Court handed down its historic 7-2 decision in the Roe v Wade case, But the arguments have never stopped.
- [Don't Know Much About Ben Franklin](https://dontknowmuch.com/2010/01/dont-know-much-about-ben-franklin/) - Today is the birthday of America's first international celebrity and most consistently interesting Founding Father. Benjamin Franklin was born in Boston on January 17, 1706. With little formal education, he became a writer, printer, philanthropist, philosopher, political leader and scientist. Franklin, alongside Thomas Jefferson, was probably the best example of the American Enlightenment Man. And,
- [Don't Know Much About Jack London](https://dontknowmuch.com/2010/01/dont-know-much-about-jack-london/) - In the appropriate chill of the day, it is worth noting that Jack London, a man who knew cold and wrote about it memorably, was born on this date in 1876. London was certainly one of the writers who got me hooked on books as a young reader. In fact, in the early 20th century,
- [A Year of Good Reading](https://dontknowmuch.com/2010/01/a-year-of-good-reading/) - My first post of this New Year is actually a Guest Post. The very illustrious Bookclubgirl recently asked me to produce a year's worth of recommended Reading for Book Clubs. She posted my guest post on her blog today and you can find it here. I don't belong to any book club, but I am
- [12 Christmas Myths (12): Some Cold, Hard Facts](https://dontknowmuch.com/2009/12/12-christmas-myths-cold-hard-facts/) - Okay. Here comes trouble. I have been writing about the traditions and legends that have grown around Christmas and many of their pagan roots. But here come some cold, hard facts about the Nativity story itself-- It is a comfortable and familiar tale, retold each year in countless churches and reenacted in Charming Christmas pageant
- [Twelve Christmas Myths (11): X Marks the Spot](https://dontknowmuch.com/2009/12/twelve-christmas-myths-11-x-marks-the-spot/) - Long before the current round of "War on Christmas" dust-ups began a few years ago, many well-meaning Christians bemoaned the fact that Christ was being "taken out of Christmas." Often they pointed to the use of the shorthand, "Xmas" as a vivid example of the secularization of a very significant day on the Christian calendar.
- [12 Christmas Myths (9&10): What's Green and Red All Over?](https://dontknowmuch.com/2009/12/12-christmas-myths-910-whats-green-and-red-all-over/) - (9) The Holly and the Ivy-- All around the New York City area, the Christmas tree stands are stocked with little plastic-wrapped packages of holly. With its red berries and sharp, pointed green leaves, holly is another iconic symbol of the season. And one of the most lovely traditional Christmas carols is called "The Holly
- [12 Myths of Christmas (7): How many "Kings?"](https://dontknowmuch.com/2009/12/12-myths-of-christmas-7-how-many-kings/) - In churches around the world, there will surely be some Christmas pageants today, along with a reading of the Nativity story. When I was a kid, the Christmas pageant was probably my favorite day of the year. We put on the Christmas story and sang all the great carols. Afterward, there was a wonderful old-fashioned
- [Don't Know Much About "a Lady"](https://dontknowmuch.com/2009/12/dont-know-much-about-a-lady/) - "The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid." So says Henry Tilney, the charming young clergyman in Jane Austen’s Northanger Abbey, defending a genre that was taken about as seriously in Austen’s time as drugstore romances and “beach reads” are today. Novels, to high-minded
- [Twelve Myths of Christmas (4): You Light Up My Life](https://dontknowmuch.com/2009/12/twelve-myths-of-christmas-4-you-light-up-my-life/) - But few traditions are more important to western Christmas celebrations than the Norse solstice stories.
- [Myths of Christmas (3): Who started the "War on Christmas?"](https://dontknowmuch.com/2009/12/myths-of-christmas-3-who-started-the-war-on-christmas/) - During the past few years, the so-called "War on Christmas" has been a staple of conservative broadcasters and the religious right. Their basic idea: Christmas is under attack by Grinchy atheists and secular humanists who want to remove any vestige of Christianity from the public space. Any criticism of public space devoted to religious displays
- [TODAY IN HISTORY: The Gettysburg Address](https://dontknowmuch.com/2009/11/today-in-history-the-gettysburg-address/) - The opening lines are among the most familiar words in our history. Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth, on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. Today is Dedication Day, the date on which Abraham Lincoln delivered the Gettysburg
- [A Soldier is a Terrible Thing to Waste](https://dontknowmuch.com/2009/11/a-soldier-is-a-terrible-thing-to-waste/) - “The eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month.” That was the moment in 1918 at which they put a stop to the mindless killing of World War I with an Armistice. Back then, it was called the “Great War” or the “War to End All Wars” – because they didn’t know a
- [A Lady and a Penguin -- Not a "Dirty Story"](https://dontknowmuch.com/2009/11/a-lady-and-a-penguin-not-obscene/) - Generally, we don't associate the iconic Penguin Books with "dirty books." And neither did a British jury. On November 2, 1960, Penguin won a landmark British publishing case when Lady Chatterley's Lover was deemed "not obscene" by a jury of three women and nine men. Penguin had published the novel, written in 1928, to mark
- [The NYC Subway](https://dontknowmuch.com/2009/10/the-nyc-subway/) - Most of us New Yorkers have a love-hate relationship with the Subway. We love to hate it. Speaking for myself, I love the subway. So Happy Birthday, NYC subway. The first New York City underground line, the IRT, opened on October 27, 1904. Here is the triumphal New York Times coverage of the epochal day.
- [TODAY IN HISTORY: A Real October Scare-- The Missile Crisis](https://dontknowmuch.com/2009/10/today-in-history-a-real-october-scare-the-missile-crisis/) - For Americans alive in 1962, it was much more scary than any Halloween. For nearly two weeks in October, the world came as close to World War III or an all-out nuclear war as it has ever been. On October 22, 1962, President John F. Kennedy announced an air and naval blockade of Cuba, following
- [Today in Literature: Oscar Wilde and Eugene O'Neill](https://dontknowmuch.com/2009/10/today-in-literature-oscar-wilde-and-eugene-oneill/) - Born this day are two great and influential writers. Irish-American Eugene O'Neill, born in 1888 in a New York City Broadway hotel. Son of a famous actor, he became arguably America's greatest playwright. Four Pulitzer Prizes went to his work, including one posthumously for Long Day's Journey Into Night Read more about O'Neill at the
- [TODAY IN HISTORY: Death to Quakers](https://dontknowmuch.com/2009/10/today-in-history-death-to-quakers/) - But
- [Of Columbus Day and Crosses](https://dontknowmuch.com/2009/10/of-columbus-day-and-crosses/) - “It’s the -- the cross is the -- is the most common symbol of -- of -- of the resting place of the dead.” Those were the words of Associate Justice Antonin Scalia during a Supreme Court questioning session. The case involves a cross honoring veterans that has been placed on federal lands. The fuller
- [TODAY in HISTORY: Roger Williams and San Francisco](https://dontknowmuch.com/2009/10/today-in-history-roger-williams-and-san-francisco/) - It is one of those curious coincidences of American history. But on this date--October 9th-- Roger Williams, a dissident preacher, was "banned from Boston" (in 1635) and Junipero Serra dedicated Mission Dolores in what would become San Francisco (in 1776). Separated by more than century and a continent, they might seem like unconnected events. But
- [Don't Know Much About Truman Capote](https://dontknowmuch.com/2009/09/dont-know-much-about-truman-capote/) - “Oh my, it’s fruitcake weather!” It's not the first line many people associate with Truman Capote, born September 30, 1924 in New Orleans. But it is in one of my favorites, A Christmas Memory, a 1956 short story originally published in Mademoiselle. This Depression-era story of a young boy and his favorite aunt making holiday
- [Don't Know Much About Faulkner](https://dontknowmuch.com/2009/09/dont-know-much-about-faulkner/) - Yesterday Fitzgerald. Today Faulkner. This American master was born in New Albany, Mississippi on September 25, 1897. The past is never dead. It’s not even past. History haunts the present in William Faulkner’s novels, as this famous line from Requiem for a Nun (1951) suggests. Faulkner's great novels focus on the decline of the southern
- [Don't Know Much About F. Scott Fitzgerald](https://dontknowmuch.com/2009/09/dont-know-much-about-f-scott-fitzgerlad/) - Born September 24, 1896: F. Scott Fitzgerald in St. Paul, Minnesota. He was named Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald after the author of The Star-Spangled Banner, a distant relative of his mother's. It was an age of miracles, it was an age of art, it was an age of excess, and it was an age of
- [TODAY IN HISTORY: The Fugitive Slave Act](https://dontknowmuch.com/2009/09/today-in-history-the-fugitive-slave-act/) - Congress, in its infinite wisdom, often makes bad law. Today is a reminder of that fundamental truth. When: On September 18, 1890, Congress passed the Fugitive Slave Act, which allowed slave owners to reclaim slaves who had escaped to other states. Why: The Fugitive Slave Act was part of a larger "Compromise of 1850," intended
- [A Tale of Two Libraries](https://dontknowmuch.com/2009/09/a-tale-of-two-libraries/) - The headline was a shocker. All Free Library of Philadelphia Branch, Regional and Central Libraries Closed Effective Close of Business October 2, 2009 I read about the possible closing of the Philadelphia Free Library –in the city where Benjamin Franklin helped invent the public library in 1731—with shock, sadness, and dismay. And more than a
- [Don't Know Much About the Birmingham Bombings](https://dontknowmuch.com/2009/09/dont-know-much-about-the-birmingham-bombings/) - September 15, like September 11, deserves to be remembered. On this day in 1963, a murderous bombing took the lives of innocent Americans --four children. The terrorist bombers were also Americans --members of the Ku Klux Klan. In recording the bombing 20 years later, Howell Raines once wrote, In the mindlessness of its evil, the
- [Richard Wright](https://dontknowmuch.com/2009/09/richard-wright/) - One of the most powerful reading experiences in my life was discovering the work of Richard Wright when I was a teenager in the 1960s. Like many great writers, Richard Wright offered that vision of truth and reality that can change our perspectives forever. Grandson of slaves, Wright was born this date (September 4) in
- [TODAY IN HISTORY: V-J DAY](https://dontknowmuch.com/2009/09/today-in-history-vj-day/) - Yesterday, September 1st, marked the beginning of World War II in 1939. Today, September 2d, marks the end six years later. When: On this day in 1945, Japan surrendered, "formally and unconditionally," in a ceremony aboard the U.S.S. Missouri. What: In the 20 minute ceremony, twelve signatures were required to end the bloody Pacific conflict,
- [TODAY IN HISTORY: NAZI GERMANY INVADES POLAND](https://dontknowmuch.com/2009/09/today-in-history-nazi-germany-invades-poland/) - WHAT: 70 Years ago today, World War II began. Hitler's German Army overran an almost defenseless Poland. The war that ravaged Europe and would eventually spread around the world was now underway. WHO: Adolf Hitler's Nazi Germany had absorbed Austria in the Anschluss (annexation) in March 1938. Then Hitler demanded the return of the German
- [Don't Know Much About Suffrage](https://dontknowmuch.com/2009/08/dont-know-much-about-suffrage/) - "You've come a long way baby." It was 233 years ago that the brilliant Abigail Adams wrote to her husband John, then working in Philadelphia on independence. Remember the ladies, and be more generous and favourable to them than your ancestors. . . Remember all men would be tyrants if they could. If particular care
- [Don't Know Much About Nabokov](https://dontknowmuch.com/2009/08/dont-know-much-about-nabokov/) - Today in 1958, America met Lolita. Vladimir Nabokov's most sensational novel was first published in New York by G.P. Putnam's Sons on this date, almost three years after the book was originally published in Paris. It became an instant bestseller. But there’s a lot more to Vladimir Nabokov (1899-1977) than Lolita. Born into wealth in
- [The Gift of the Meter Maid](https://dontknowmuch.com/2009/08/the-gift-of-the-meter-maid/) - She was the town's meter maid. And yes, the Beatles had recently sung about "Lovely Rita." But this lady was not exactly lovely in her uniform. She was a plus-sized meter maid, and she was not "the most comely of maidens." All of that probably made her already unpopular job even more difficult. But this
- [Today in History: The Gulf Of Tonkin Resolution](https://dontknowmuch.com/2009/08/today-in-history-the-gulf-of-tonkin-resolution/) - When Administrations Lie, Thousands Die. That is today's history lesson on the 45th anniversary of passage of the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution by Congress on August 7, 1964. Since the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution and Vietnam War might as well be the Punic Wars to some people, here is a quick refresher. America was already
- [Pop Quiz: How's Your Literary IQ?](https://dontknowmuch.com/2009/08/pop-quiz-hows-your-literary-iq/) - It’s summer. Do you know where your IQ is? For most school age kids, summer means vacation, camp, the pool. You know: A few months of fun. “No more teachers, No more books.” But that last part is not true. Summer also means the often dread Summer Reading List. Many parents spend the summer in
- [Don’t Know Much About the Brontë Sisters](https://dontknowmuch.com/2009/07/don’t-know-much-about-the-bronte-sisters/) - "I lingered round them, under that benign sky: watched the moths fluttering among the heath and harebells;" (Wuthering Heights, 1847) Happy Birthday, Emily Brontë! (Born July 30, 1818) As children, the literary sisters Charlotte, Emily, and Anne Brontë, along with their brother Branwell, created fantasy kingdoms with names like “Gondal” and “Angria,” and made them
- [An American History Reading List](https://dontknowmuch.com/2009/07/an-american-history-reading-list/) - Every so often, news stories and other events converge to create a “teaching moment.” This is one of those moments when you can curse the darkness or light a candle. I will try and shed some light. Patrick Buchanan’s recent “white men built America” rant on MSNBC (subject of an earlier post http://www.huffingtonpost.com/kenneth-c-davis/an-american-history-lesso_b_239108.html); the arrest
- [Don't Know Much About Literature](https://dontknowmuch.com/2009/07/dont-know-much-about-literature/) - “What you don’t know,” the somewhat obscure English writer Sydney Smith once noted, “would make a great book.” And what you don’t know about great books would make a really great book! So here it is -- What You Need to Know About the World’s Great Books and Writers but Never Learned. Downbeat about the
- [TODAY IN HISTORY (Besides the Moon Landing) "The Bonus Army" Gets Gassed](https://dontknowmuch.com/2009/07/today-in-history-besides-the-moon-landing-the-bonus-army/) - After seeing the tear gas in Tehran last month, it is worth remembering another group of protesters who were gassed on July 20 1932 -- veterans of the American Expeditionary Force (AEF) in World War I, they had come to Washington, D.C. to get what they deserved and desperately needed. Instead they got tear gas.
- [TODAY IN HISTORY: The "Glory" Charge --Fort Wagner ](https://dontknowmuch.com/2009/07/today-in-history-the-glory-charge-fort-wagner/) - I did not hear right wing talking head Pat Buchanan's remarks on African American history the other day on MSNBC. According to an account on the Huffington Post, Buchanan and host Rachel Maddow had a hot exchange during which Buchanan said: "White men were 100% of the people that wrote the Constitution, 100% of the
- [Don't Know Much About "Holden Caulfield"](https://dontknowmuch.com/2009/07/dont-know-much-about-holden-caulfield/) - Holden Caulfield joining AARP! Now there’s a thought. The Catcher in the Rye was published on July 16, 1951. So the perennial 17-year-old, prep school dropout has hit his golden years. As another crop of high school students hits their summer reading list, J.D. Salinger’s tale of adolescent alienation is probably still at the top.
- [Don't Know Much About Emerson](https://dontknowmuch.com/2009/07/dont-know-much-about-emerson/) - It's not often that a commencement speech to a class of six makes waves. But TODAY IN HISTORY, on July 15, 1838, Ralph Waldo Emerson managed that feat. In what is known as the "Divinity School Address" a commencement speech made to the Harvard Divinity School's class of six, Emerson questioned Jesus' divinity, discounted biblical
- [TODAY IN HISTORY: Civil War Draft Riots Tear Apart New York](https://dontknowmuch.com/2009/07/today-in-history-civil-war-draft-riots-tear-apart-new-york/) - On July 13, 1863, New York City was plunged into five days of deadly rioting over recently passed draft laws. More than a hundred people, most of them African-American victims of vicious mobs, died in the violence that tore across New York City. The hostility of the day might best be summarized by this sentiment:
- [TODAY IN HISTORY: The "Monkey Trial"](https://dontknowmuch.com/2009/07/today-in-history-the-scopes-monkey-trial/) - It was the "trial of the century." On July 10, 1925, a courtroom in Tennessee was center stage in a contest pitting two courtroom titans against each other, arguing science versus religion on a grand scale, with the full cooperation of an enthusiastic pack of journalists more interested in a spectacle. Imagine that! In real
- [A Very Dignified Slave Owner](https://dontknowmuch.com/2009/07/a-very-dignified-slave-owner/) - Writing on the op-ed pages of the New York Times on July 7, 2009, David Brooks clearly touched a nerve. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/07/opinion/07brooks.html His column, entitled "In Search of Dignity," topped the Times list of most emailed articles and drew hundreds on online comments, many of them laudatory. Brooks used the column to celebrate the good manners,
- [JFK in Berlin](https://dontknowmuch.com/2009/06/jfk-in-berlin/) - It was one of the most famous sentences spoken during the Cold War. "Ich bin ein Berliner." ("I am a Berliner.") John F. Kennedy spoke those words on June 26, 1963, to an enormous crowd in a Berlin divided by the Cold War. Here is a link to the New York Times account of the
- [The Truth- Still Out There?](https://dontknowmuch.com/2009/06/the-truth-still-out-there/) - Who you gonna believe? Mulder and Scully? Or your government? Twelve years ago, on June 24, 1997, the Air Force released a report on the so-called "Roswell Incident." According to the Air Force, the "alien bodies" witnesses reported seeing in 1947 around Roswell, New Mexico were actually life-sized crash test dummies. I know I am
- [A Revolting Reading List](https://dontknowmuch.com/2009/06/a-revolting-reading-list/) - Revere and his horse. Jefferson and his quill, Franklin and his kite. Washington and those false teeth. Okay. Most of us now know there was more to the American Revolution than these stock images. And the bestseller lists have been well-stocked over the past few years with books that plumb the "great men" of the
- [Galileo's Sentence](https://dontknowmuch.com/2009/06/galileos-sentence/) - This is a day to ponder the power of science and reason against the power of religious authority. On this date, reason lost. On June 22, 1633, the 70-year-old astronomer Galileo went before the Inquisition in Rome. He wore the white shirt of a penitent. Then he heard sentence passed: We say, pronounce, sentence, and
- [The International Declaration of Human Rights](https://dontknowmuch.com/2009/06/the-international-declaration-of-human-rights/) - In light of events in Iran and elsewhere, it seems fitting to remember that on June 18, 1948, the United Nations Commission on Human Rights --chaired by Eleanor Roosevelt-- adopted its International Declaration of Human Rights setting up a "common standard of achievement for all peoples and all nations." The document was approved by the
- [TODAY IN HISTORY: The Watergate Break-in](https://dontknowmuch.com/2009/06/today-in-history-the-watergate-break-in/) - It was the duct tape that changed history. On June 17, 1976, private security guard Frank Wills was making his rounds of the Watergate office complex in Washington, D.C. when he noticed some duct tape on a door lock. He removed the piece of tape. When he returned a little later, he found the duct
- [TODAY IN HISTORY: George Washington Gets a New Job](https://dontknowmuch.com/2009/06/today-in-history-george-washington-gets-a-new-job/) - Egos and ambitions. The Founding Fathers had them too. Patriotic noses could also be put of joint, as this day in history proves. On June 15, 1775 George Washington was appointed commander of the Continental Army by a unanimous vote of the Continental Congress in Philadelphia. "Colonel Washington appears at Congress in uniform and by
- [Happy Birthday William Butler Yeats](https://dontknowmuch.com/2009/06/william-butler-yeats/) - Each of us has a short list of absolute favorite writers --poets and novelists who inspire and change the way we look at the world. For me, one of those literary idols is Ireland's greatest poet, William Butler Yeats, born on June 13, 1865 in Sandymount, near Dublin. Alongside his enormous and influential body of
- [REMEMBERING ANNE FRANK](https://dontknowmuch.com/2009/06/loving-anne-frank/) - Anne Frank would have been eighty years old today. This anniversary of her birthday seems especially poignant in light of the deadly shooting of a security guard at the Holocaust Museum in Washington, D.C. on June 10, 2009. On June 12, 1929, Anne Frank was born in Germany. On her thirteenth birthday in 1942, she
- [TODAY IN HISTORY-- Joseph Warren Day](https://dontknowmuch.com/2009/06/today-in-history-joseph-warren-day/) - June 11 marks an important date in America's Revolutionary history for two reasons. Today is the day in 1776 that the Continental Congress appointed five men to draft a Declaration of Independence. The first four were Benjamin Franklin, Roger Sherman, Robert Livingston and John Adams. It was Adams who recommended the fifth member-- Thomas Jefferson.
- [Summer Reading: A List With a Twist](https://dontknowmuch.com/2009/06/summer-reading-a-list-with-a-twist/) - Summer Reading Lists tend to be light and frothy “beach reads.” Here’s a historian’s summer reading list with a slight twist: a “water” theme. These are some of my favorite history books --recent and not-so recent-- that may help you keep cool by taking you down to the water. Go ahead, dive in! *Down the
- [Don't Know Much About the "McCarthy Hearings"](https://dontknowmuch.com/2009/06/dont-know-much-about-the-mccarthy-hearings/) - On June 9, 1954, In one of the most famous moments in Cold War history, Joseph N. Welch, an attorney representing the US Army, confronted Senator Joseph McCarthy during a televised hearing, with the memorable question: Have you no sense of decency, sir? At long last, have you left no sense of decency?" The dramatic
- [Don't Know Much About the Korean War](https://dontknowmuch.com/2009/06/dont-know-much-about-the-korean-war/) - North Korea preoccupies the headlines as two American journalists are sentenced to hard labor for "illegal entry", and the US considers blocking shipments into North Korea. One of the thorniest of foreign policy problems facing the US, the conflict with North Korea began during the Cold War, with fighting that began in June 1950 and
- [D-Day and the Death of RFK: Two History Changing Events](https://dontknowmuch.com/2009/06/d-day-and-rfk/) - Two world-altering events occurred on this date in different years. June 6, 1968 Robert F. Kennedy , Jr. died early in the morning on this date in Los Angeles. He was shot the night before, just after claiming victory in the California Democratic Presidential primary. Gunman Sirhan B. Sirhan was caught immediately after the shooting,
- [Don't Know Much About Tiananmen Square](https://dontknowmuch.com/2009/06/dont-know-much-about-tiananmen-square/) - On June 4, 1989, a pro-democracy protest movement was crushed when Chinee troops stormed Tianamen Square. The death toll is unknown to this day, but hundreds, and possibly thousands, of mostly young Chinese demonstrators were killed as the Chinese government moved to suppress dissent. In a story on the front page of the New York
- [Today in History: The First Space Walk](https://dontknowmuch.com/2009/06/today-in-history-the-first-space-walk/) - In an era when the spacewalks of astronauts working aboard the International Space Station and Space Shuttle have become routine, it is worth remembering Edward H. White, an astronaut involved in one of the most exhilarating and one of the most tragic moments in the American space program's history. On June 3, 1965, astronaut Edward
- [DON’T KNOW MUCH ABOUT  Pope John Paul II: The "Polish Pope"](https://dontknowmuch.com/2009/06/don’t-know-much-about-pope-john-paul-ii-the-polish-pope/) - On June 2, 1979, Pope John Paul II made a trip to his native Poland. It was the first visit by a Pope to a Communist country and had enormous political impact. Along with the "Solidarity" labor movement, the Pope was widely credited as a force in ending Communism in his native country, and eventually
- [Three Basic Questions About Torture](https://dontknowmuch.com/2009/05/three-basic-questions-about-torture/) - President Obama's semi-surreal and disconnected "debate" on Thursday with former Vice-President Cheney over Guantanamo, torture and national security provides an opportune moment to pose Three Good Questions for our times. Actually, the questions were asked by Lyndon B. Johnson in 1967-- "-- What happened? -- Why did it happen? -- What can be done to
- [Memorial Day: It's Not About Mattress Sales](https://dontknowmuch.com/2009/05/memorial-day-its-not-about-mattress-sales/) - A “Memorial Day Mattress Sale” ad was airing on the car radio as I rolled through Dover, Delaware last week. Coincidentally, on the same radio station, just a few minutes earlier, a sportscaster had bemoaned the fact he didn’t know where Delaware was.But Delaware –and specifically Dover—had been on my mind all morning. A photograph
- [Memorial Day: A History Lesson](https://dontknowmuch.com/2009/05/memorial-day-a-history-lesson/) - Mother’s Day has just passed. Memorial Day is around the corner. At least on the surface, the two occasions would seem to have little in common besides falling in May. But there is an intriguing connection between the two that comes through American history’s bloodiest chapter, the Civil War. Memorial Day was born in 1868,
- [GOP--DOA?](https://dontknowmuch.com/2009/05/gop-doa/) - Are the reports of the death of the GOP, to paraphrase Mark Twain, “Greatly exaggerated?” Or are we seeing the inexorable demise of a doomed beast –like seeing the last wooly mammoth go down in tar pits of La Brea?
- [America's Willing Torturers](https://dontknowmuch.com/2009/05/americas-willing-torturers/) - Over the past few years, as we have been debating torture and its place in America’s intelligence policy, the words of Abraham Lincoln keep rolling through my mind: “Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery,” Lincoln said in 1865, “I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.” I just replace “slavery”
- [Don't Know Much About the First 100 Days: Then and Now](https://dontknowmuch.com/2009/04/dont-know-much-about-the-first-100-days-then-and-now/) - As a yardstick of Presidential accomplishment, the “First 100 Days” is surely a faulty measure. Lincoln’s first one hundred days were miserable, and included the beginning of the Civil War. But ever since President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed sixteen pieces of major legislation and fundamentally altered the American political landscape during one hundred days back
- [Poetry Quiz Answers](https://dontknowmuch.com/2009/04/poetry-quiz-answers/) - Okay. Yesterday I gave you a Literary Quiz. Here are the answers. How did you do, hotshot? Answers 1. How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. Elizabeth Barrett Browning, “Sonnet 43.” 2. anyone lived in a pretty how town e.e. cummings, “anyone lived in a pretty how town. 3. Take up the
- ["Cruel April": A Literary Quiz](https://dontknowmuch.com/2009/04/cruel-april-a-literary-quiz/) - “April is the cruellest month,” T.S. Eliot told us. It is also Poetry Month. Not that most poetry lovers need a special month to be reminded of the importance of verse. I’ve had a love-hate relationship with poetry ever since elementary school when I was supposed to memorize William Blake’s The Tiger: TIGER, tiger, burning
- [Regis Philbin. Smarter than a 5-Year-Old?](https://dontknowmuch.com/2009/04/regis-philbin-smarter-than-a-5-year-old/) - So there’s Regis Philbin –the man who made “Final answer” a part of the language – facing down a five-year-old “whiz kid” on his morning TV show this past Monday. They are in the midst of a quiz show and dueling over the U.S. Presidents. Regis is losing to the little boy –and it’s not
- [This Day in "America's Hidden History"](https://dontknowmuch.com/2009/03/this-day-in-americas-hidden-history/) - It’s March 31st. . . Hannah Dustin Day! Okay. So it’s not marked on your calendar. But this is a red-letter day in the life of one of the most famous American women you’ve never heard of. Hannah Dustin – now largely overlooked – was the first of her sex to have a permanent statue

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- [Articles](https://dontknowmuch.com/articles-3/) - Social Education (National Council for the Social Studies)- The American Contradiction: Conceived in Liberty, Born in Shackles (March/April 2020) Social Education (National Council for the Social Studies)- Democracy is not a spectator sport (September 2019) Smithsonian.com - The Top 10 Political Conventions That Mattered the Most CNN.com – The blood and sweat behind Labor Day – September
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- [Don't Know Much About® Mythology](https://dontknowmuch.com/dont-know-much-about-mythology/) - The latest installment in the New York Times bestselling Don’t Know Much About® series—a magical journey into the timeless world of mythology It has been fifteen years since Kenneth C. Davis first dazzled audiences with his instant classic Don’t Know Much About® History, vividly bringing the past to life and proving that Americans don’t hate
- [Don't Know Much About® Literature](https://dontknowmuch.com/dont-know-much-about-literature/) - The latest addition to the multimillions-copy selling Don’t Know Much About series–a compelling compendium of history’s greatest and most influential works and writers. In his irreverent and popular style, Kenneth C. Davis turns to the world of literature with this fun collection of quizzes. From Homer to “Harry Potter,” Chaucer to “Charlotte’s Web,” and “Beowulf” to
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