Tag: United States History
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What are Your Hobbies?
LINKS: 150 HOBBY IDEAS BROKEN DOWN BY INTERESTS AND PERSONALITY FIVE FANTASTIC HOBBIES FOR HISTORY BUFFS MY NEW HOBBY? DEVELOPING INTERESTS 9 VICTORIAN HOBBIES THAT SEEM WEIRD TODAY ***My friends and I “researching” history.
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Taken Prisoner
A Confederate officer stood alone at a crossroad goading his horse to move on in the aftermath of the Union retreat at BULL RUN. Sensing danger he glanced over his shoulder. A Yankee raced over the field tramping the freshly cut hay. As the Yankee drew closer he struggled to pull something from behind his…
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Border Battles/ Old School
“The basic cause of this war from the Mexican side was the refusal to recognize the independence of Texas, which successfully revolted in 1836. In ten years as an independent republic Texas was recognized by the major nations of the world, most notably Britain and France, but not by Mexico. From the borderland perspective, Mexico…
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Edward S. Curtis: Photographer with an agenda? You decide.
“Curtis has been praised as a gifted photographer but also criticized by some contemporary ethnologists for manipulating his images. Although the early twentieth century was a difficult time for most Native communities in America, not all natives were doomed to becoming a “vanishing race.”[27] At a time when natives’ rights were being denied and their…
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Are You Brave?
While many would see the above image as horrifying proof of racism in America, we must remember the flip side. Yes, there were racists, but as the cartoon says, the Republican congress gave blacks the right to vote and pushed for racial equality. The fact that violence and hatred still remained after the Civil War…
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“Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection . . .
The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battlefield, and the patriot grave, to every living heart and hearthstone, all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature. The fiery trial through which we pass, will…
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Books I’ve Known And Loved
When Harriet Hanson Robinson explained to her busy (and presumably happy) single friend that she felt sorry for her because she wasn’t married and could not be a complete woman there was no hint of bitchiness. Harriet was a contented creature of her time. In my early feminist days I would have found this hard…
Author Adrienne Morris 