What Other Flags Fly in Support of Slavery?
IT’S A WEEK for heavy subjects, so let’s look at the recent flag removals from Southern state capitals… Though the removal of the flag of the Confederate States of America (a long-dead representative...
View ArticleGetting the Story…the Whole Story
Source: morguefile.com/eskodesign HISTORY. Or just, the news. When does the one become the other? A hundred years ago the news was on the page of a newspaper, heard through the local telegrapher’s...
View ArticleTomorrow’s History: Weekly Roundup (Trump – Holocaust – Year Without Summer)
“Today’s news is tomorrow’s history,” is a quote attributed to Judy Croome, a South African writer. However, the jist has long been known to historians, is ignored by politicians and celebrities, and...
View ArticleTomorrow’s History: Weekly Roundup (Austria Moves Right-wing – Unphotogenic:...
Austria’s Far-right Party Loses Election, But Wins As A Movement While Americans continue to be entranced by the ongoing boxing match between U.S. Presidential candidates, another election has just...
View ArticleA Look at D-Day through the Eyes of A Village: Aunay sur Odon
Many lives were lost during the Normandy invasion. Among the Allies and the Axis troops, but also the collateral damage that occurred in the small villages and towns over and upon which was the...
View ArticleTomorrow’s History: Marriage to the Sea Ceremony – and – DNA Links Europe and...
So, this week we take a quick look at where history collides with the present, which, strictly speaking happens every day since the present becomes the past at sunset or midnight, depending on how you...
View Article‘Brexit’ Turmoil Pales in Comparison to ‘Game of Thrones’– Welcome to Reality...
I have some thoughts on the ‘Brexit’ situation, and those will follow soon, but I thought I would post some “news of the absurd” first. In a dash for the finish line of the race to avoid reality, comes...
View ArticleTomorrow’s History: Brexit – Should We Be Surprised?
So the hammer has fallen, the vote was taken, and England (the United Kingdom as it presently stands: England, Wales, Scotland, and Northern Ireland) will depart from the EU. The uproar has been,...
View ArticleExploring Gateways to History: The Used Bookshop
Stepping into a previously unexplored used bookstore for the first time is akin to stumbling on that long lost tomb of King Whoever with the certain knowledge that inside are more artifacts of...
View ArticleTomorrow’s History: When The Details Hit You In The Nose
I stepped outside one day a couple of weeks ago and all of a sudden Summer had jumped into Autumn. Not faded, mind you, as many poets have told us that it does, but jumped, leaped, maybe even threw...
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