Collecting My Thoughts

"On the morning of April 15, 2023, residents of Sudan’s capital, Khartoum, faced the shock of fighting breaking out in their city, whi...

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...

Today is Memorial Day, the last Monday of May, originally observed on May 30. It began in the South in 1866 to recognize their war dead, and...

"Footage and news coverage of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has been all-encompassing. This is partly because widespread social media us...

From Christ to Emancipation, the mob...

As we are all distracted by marches, rioting and tearing down statues of emancipators and liberators, you should track down and object to th...

Why is there such a euro-centric view of slavery? Why more concern for slaves long dead than those living today? Because there are ideologic...

We really had an amazing speaker for Lakeside’s Civil War week Tuesday and Wednesday, Dennis Frye ,  the chief historian at Harpers Ferry Na...

Wording on the Confederate Soldiers and Sailors Monument at Gettysburg (dedicated 1965). "A memorial to soldiers and sailors of the Con...

Our educational theme this week at Lakeside is WWII. We've reviewed the horrors of the European theater and the Pacific theater. Within ...

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

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/films/death/ The greatest loss of life of any U.S. war was the Civil War, where 1 in 5 American...

2nd great grand uncle, buried at Stones River National Battleground, died 1863 according to Find a Grave. Thanks to “cousin” Berta whose hus...

I haven’t seen this lovely church in Dayton, Ohio, but I think I’ll put it on my List of Places to See in Ohio (LOPTSIO).  The above photo...

President Obama is just not doing well with this Gettysburg Address thing. First he bails on attending the 150th event in Pennsylvania, offe...

Yesterday at Lakeside (Civil War Week) we had a lecture on Crinolines, corsets and cravats.  During the question and answer period, I discer...

Monday our book club (I joined in 2000) met for our first day time meeting. The group is about 30 years old with some of the original membe...

Because of our trip back to Columbus for a meeting and a quick visit to the vet for our cat, we missed the Monday and Tuesday daytime progra...

No more wars to keep Muslims from killing each other. All we do is install new despots and they hate us. Stay out of Libya. Update: Soun...

From Measuring Worth , which provides seven indicators for making comparisons in US dollars between any two years from 1774 to the present (...