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When Abraham Lincoln came to giving his Second Inaugural Address, the country was still in the midst of completing the Civil War. Surely, it was pretty obvious that the war was over, but that did not necessarily mean the struggle would end. General Grant was still stuck outside of Richmond, though General Sherman was moving…
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Do we really need others? For the past 15 years, I have made the issue of “community” a major issue in my life. The more I’ve taught & studied US history over the years, the more intense comes my belief that without a clear sense of holding together, the country fails. What’s another example of…
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Back in the spring, I escorted my two youngest daughters, Meryn and Brynn, on a school trip to Colonial Williamsburg. If you know the region, it’s called the Historic Triangle because the battlefield of Yorktown and the first colony Jamestown are within a few miles of each other. We had been there back in 2006…