Christopher Alan Smith’s journey to becoming a prominent artist in Texas is a rather direct one. Born in 1971, decades before the rise of the internet and when families still climbed aboard their four-wheeled vessels for road trips, Smith fell in love with maps. Seated in the backseat with the multi-fold map stretched from end-to-end,…
Mapping Art: How Maps Guided a Texas Artist to a Successful Career
April 29, 2023
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Documentary Reviews: ‘Inside the Red Brick Wall’ and ‘Taking Back the Legislature’
Were it not for Kate Adie and her colleague at the BBC, we would have far less footage of the Tiananmen Square Massacre. They made five copies of their eye-witness recordings, four of which were intercepted by customs. Had the fifth copy also been confiscated, it would have been much easier for the Chinese Communist…
Michigan Judge Appeals to Americans for Morality Reform
Mark Boonstra has been on the cutting edge to witness the social and moral decline of America. After practicing private law for nearly three decades, he has sat on Michigan’s 3rd District Court of Appeals for the past decade. His adherence to the letter of the law and his disdain for judicial activism has drawn…
Profiles in History: William H. Webb, America’s First Naval Architect
William H. Webb (1816-1899) was the son of a shipbuilder who arguably became the most successful and innovative American shipbuilder of the 19th century. Isaac Webb taught his son the art of building ships of sail, as the innovation of the steamboat had yet to arrive. When his father died in 1840, Webb took control…
Book Review: ‘Toward a More Perfect Union: The Moral and Cultural Case for Teaching the Great American Story’
America is in a cultural conundrum. The country leads the world economically, politically, and militarily, yet while leading the world, it seems to have left itself behind. According to Timothy Goeglein, the author of “Toward a More Perfect Union: The Moral and Cultural Case for Teaching the Great American Story,” America has abandoned its identity…
Oliver Wendell Holmes: The ‘Great Dissenter’
April 26, 2023
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Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. served on the U.S. Supreme Court when several laws were passed that restricted freedom of speech; this was a time when people spoke against the government and its choice to go to war. For years, the Supreme Court did not defend people’s right to free speech. Then Holmes came up with…
‘The Lusiads’: An Epic Poem Celebrating the Portuguese Nation
April 26, 2023
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The weapons and barons marked, That from the western Lusitana beach, By seas never sailed before. Most Portuguese people know these opening lines of “The Lusiads” (“Os Lusiadas”), a Portuguese epic poem by Luís Vaz de Camões, first published in 1572. Written three years after the poet’s return from India, it narrates Vasco Da Gama’s…
Exploring Ireland’s Ring of Kerry, From Tetrapods to Lindbergh
Squinting into the wind and rain, we marched from a desolate parking lot on the southwest tip of Ireland down a slippery path. I turned a corner and the mean-looking surf was still a long walk away. Noticing my questioning look, my guide, Conner, egged me on. He was hell-bent on showing me “the tracks…
Profiles in History: Missy LeHand: FDR’s ‘Right Hand Woman’
April 19, 2023
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Marguerite “Missy” LeHand (1898–1944) was born to an Irish family in Potsdam, New York. During her childhood the family moved to Massachusetts, settling into the small working-class town of Somerville just outside of Boston. It was here that she contracted rheumatic fever at the age of 15. She was lucky to survive the illness, as…
The SSN: A History Lesson
Regular readers of my column know that I try to avoid the use of Social Security jargon, abbreviations and acronyms as much as possible. That even goes as far as the name of the agency that runs the Social Security program. Although I must frequently do it, I just don’t like referring to the SSA…
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