Depending on who you ask, the present age seems to be one in which we’re either struggling up a mountain toward utopia or running off a cliff. Many of those who hold the latter view feel they have little control over the state of things, despite their best efforts to steer hearts and minds toward…
History Off the Beaten Path: Abandoned but Not Forgotten
Before my husband and I headed for a few days to the backside of Grand Teton National Park, his supervisor advised enthusiastically, “You have to stop and see the old abandoned settlement!” He gave us the GPS coordinates, since it was, indeed, off the beaten path. After driving three hours through Yellowstone and then through…
A Military Historian’s Break From Tradition to Get the History Right
As with any story, over time, the facts can become distorted, turning the truth into a fantasy. In everyday conversation, we call it gossip or hearsay. Perhaps there are remnants of the truth, but the entirety of the story is far from an honest retelling. History, even academic history, can suffer from the same errant…
Profiles in History: Daniel Morgan: The Scarred Warrior
No one truly knows exactly when Daniel Morgan (circa 1736–1802) was born. He may have been born in 1736, or possibly 1735. What is indisputable is that Morgan was born just in time for one of the world’s great revolutions. Morgan was born to Welsh immigrants in New Jersey. Though he hardly ever spoke of…
Livy and the Heroes of Early Rome
There’s a good deal of talk today, by people who imagine themselves to be serious thinkers, about doing away with the U.S. Constitution in favor of establishing a more “just” government. What would such a utopian polity look like? In the imaginations of radicals, it all sounds great, though history’s track record of human flourishing…
Tragedy and Triumph: The Roebling Family and the Building of the Brooklyn Bridge
After many long years of planning and building, along with numerous setbacks, the Brooklyn Bridge opened to traffic on May 24, 1883. The first vehicle to cross the bridge was Emily Roebling’s horse-drawn carriage. Emily carried with her a rooster in a cage symbolic of the victory realized that day. The victory was wrought from…
Early American Immigrants Celebrated Their New Homeland Through Music
February 16, 2023
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Early arrivals to America brought their cultural heritage, especially their religious music, to the new country. Now separated by an ocean from their oppressive homeland, immigrants brought a new spirit of freedom to their music of worship and ordinary life. The Pilgrim fathers, on their treacherous 66-day voyage across the Atlantic, said their prayers and…
Meet Elizabeth Ann Seton: She Substantiated America’s Doctrine of Religious Liberty
In November 1803, the Shepherdess, the ship carrying 29-year-old Elizabeth Ann Seton, her husband William, and their 8-year-old daughter Anna, the oldest of five, docked at Leghorn, Italy. Their desperate hope that this change of climate might cure Will’s tuberculosis immediately turned into a nightmare. Their home and their port of departure, New York, was…
With a Pistol and Radio, the Comanche Code Talkers Were Vital to WWII
The bombing of Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, was a “day that will live in infamy,” as proclaimed by President Franklin Roosevelt. It marked the entry of America into the Second World War, and every American citizen was affected in some way. Even America’s most isolated minority, the Native Americans, was thrust into the…
How Alexander Graham Bell’s Childhood Contributed to Him Changing the World of Communication
The telegraph revolutionized communication in 1844, and inventors everywhere raced to improve upon it. In November 1874, Alexander Graham Bell wrote to his parents about his efforts to invent a machine that could transmit spoken words before his rival, Elisha Gray. “It is a neck and neck race between Mr. Gray and myself who shall…
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