Collecting My Thoughts

Coming soon on Netflix. The story of President James Garfield. But we had the story today in Lakeside from Todd Arrington, of the National P...

In the 19th century women led the way for the big three--abolition and then civil rights and education for former slaves, temperance with i...

Day 3 of the RNC convention coincided with the 100th anniversary of the 19th Amendment and women’s constitutional right to vote.  So there w...

Whereas the revolution of another year has again brought the time when it is usual to look back upon the past and publicly to thank the Almi...

Shortly before he died on August 11, 1868, Thaddeus Stevens learned that the grave he'd purchased was located in a whites-only cemetery....

From What Hath God Wrought by Daniel Walker Howe. Many of our founding fathers were Freemasons, including George Washington and Benjamin Fr...

"The 21 Egyptian Coptic Christians were marched to a beach, forced to kneel and then beheaded on video, which was broadcast on a websit...

"Napoleon sold the Louisiana Territory [to the USA in 1803]  because he was waging war with Britain and was strapped for cash. He wrong...

When you live with an artist (or two if you count me), you have a lot of art in the closets (we also buy it), so we're always rearrangin...

In the 16th through the 19th centuries Arab Muslims captured and sold black Africans to European slavers who then shipped them to the “new w...

After struggling through Julie's manuscript to Chapter 8 (she's writing a book), I've decided that if you read and understand no...

Charles A. Sherrill, Tenn. State Library & Archives; has furnished the following information on this subject according to his understand...

He also served in the Senate before he was 30 (the age stated in the Constitution). However, he's an important American statesman. The C...

3528 Browsing in libraries When I visit a city, I try to make a stop at the public library. Often I can't get inside because I get u...