Tag: us history
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Restoration of a Monument
“The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.” George Orwell In town squares dotted all over Upstate New York stand monuments to the sacrifices made by young men who fought and died in the Civil War — to end slavery. Yes, there. I said it.…
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The Long, Forgotten Walk of David Ingram
He was the first Englishman to give a detailed description of the North American wilderness. Was it a pack of lies? READ MORE
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QUOTE: “. . . he is still your brother, and mine, in form and color accepted and approved by his Father, and yours, and mine, and bears equally with us the proudest inheritance of our race—the image of our Maker. Hold him then to be a Man.”William Seward
Old white men. The bane of revisionist historians’ existences. Yet take a look into the eyes of William Seward. He confessed to doing nothing without determining how it might affect his political career.We can take him at his word, I suppose, but I prefer to dig beneath his veneer of cynicism. William’s wealthy father owned…
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“Spend no time mourning the failures of the past. Tears make a bitter throat. Look ahead, there is more work to do.” Ely Parker
While working as an engineer overseeing the building of a federal customs house in Galena, Illinois, 29-year-old Ely Parker dropped in to a store and met a dissatisfied ex-military officer, Ulysses S. Grant employed as a clerk by his father and bored out of his skull. The meeting was chance and friendly, but did not…
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“The acutest, the astutest, the archest enemy of southern slavery that ever existed”
John Quincy Adams. Shall we bow our heads for an early nap before discussing a white dead president? It’s kind of superficial to judge a person because they’re white and dead, don’t you think? John Quincy was pretty cute (okay that’s superficial) as a young guy, but he was much more than that. You know…
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How To Post A 19th Century Letter
Step by step instructions HERE http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victorian_letter_writing_guides
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God forbid that I should go to any Heaven in which there are no horses. ~R.B. Cunninghame Graham, letter to Theodore Roosevelt, 1917
US Grant was the greatest equestrian president. Everyone says so! “He was a great horseman and sat his horse as if he were part of the horse, all one figure. There was never a movement of any description that was not masterful and graceful. No one ever saw him disturbed in any way, that is,…
Author Adrienne Morris 