Posts Tagged ‘American history’
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Don’t Know Much About History
Posted on February 18, 2015
State legislators in Oklahoma voted to stop state funding for AP history courses offered by the College Board and taught in many high schools across the country, because, according to...
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Perry as The Duke
Posted on August 30, 2011
John Wayne is still my favorite Hollywood star. No matter which one of his movies comes on the television screen, I will stop what I am doing and watch it....
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History
Posted on July 15, 2011
I can’t tell if this current Congress is making history, defying history, ignoring history, or will soon be history. I had dinner last night with a Freshman member of the...
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The Zenger Legacy
Posted on February 2, 2011
In 1733, the newly appointed colonial Governor, William Cosby, charged John Peter Zenger, a publisher based in New York, with scandalous libel. In one of the most important legal cases...
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