Anne Frank
Today is June 12th, the birthday of Anne Frank, a little girl of 15 killed by the Nazis. Maybe you’ve heard of Simon Wiesenthal, maybe not. Recent news suggests a lot of people don’t...
Category: history
Freedom From Want by Norman Rockwell
There are works of art that have become iconic, which come to represent something in our culture. Freedom From Want, by Normal Rockwell is one of those. It’s arguably the template upon which we...
Gun Control in The United States
This was originally written on June 15, 2016. I’ve edited it in an attempt to better express what’s being said. Sadly, gun violence, most noticeably on a mass scale, continues to happen in the...
Is the Future Here?
It’s popular early in the new year to see if we’re where we all thought we’d be years ago. Flying cars? Jet packs? Hoverboards? Are we all wearing silver jumpsuits and wearing transition lens...
Origins of the US Civil War from unexpected places
The story most Americans are given of the origins of the Civil War are fairly consistent, though perhaps different sides of the same story depending on where in the US you went to school....
