Slavery Abolition

The following guest post was written by Barbara Bair, curator of literature, culture and the arts in the Library’s Manuscript Division. May is the month of Walt Whitman’s birth and also of Memorial Day, when the nation is asked to pause and delve mindfully into remembrance of past wars and service…

2000 Years of Disbelief: Robert Green Ingersoll May 25, 2020 James A. Haught By James A. Haught This is the fifteenth segment of a series on renowned skeptics throughout history. These profiles are drawn from 2000 Years of Disbelief: Famous People With the Courage to Doubt, Prometheus Books, 1996. No…

Today is Memorial Day, the day on which we honor the men and women who have given their lives for our country for 245 years. Alternatively, if you're the New York Times' editorial board, this is the day on which you call the American military a white supremacist institution.  It's a mean and silly…

History, literature, film, and scripture are loaded with stories and examples of redemption. Buddhism gives us the story of Aṅgulimāla, a pathological mass-murderer who became a follower of the Buddha and went on to be enshrined as a “patron saint” of childbirth in South and Southeast Asia. Rick Blaine, the…

Skip to comments. Ransomware gang asks $42m from NY law firm, threatens to leak dirt on Trump ZDNet.com ^ | 05/15/2020 | Catalin Cimpanu Posted on 05/15/2020 3:29:19 PM PDT by aimhigh The criminal group behind the REvil (Sodinokibi) ransomware is extorting a New York-based law firm, threatening to release…

Skip to comments. How the 1619 Project Destroys the True Moral Meaning of America FrontPage Magazine ^ | May 12, 2020 | Jason D. Hill Posted on 05/12/2020 6:20:15 AM PDT by SJackson And why the Pulitzer Foundation is a bedrock of corruption and lies. Honest patriots of our great…

John Wilkes Booth (May 10, 1838 – April 26, 1865) was a famous American stage actor who assassinated President Abraham Lincoln at Ford's Theatre, in Washington, D.C., on April 14, 1865. Booth was a member of the prominent 19th century Booth theatrical family from Maryland and, by the 1860s, was a…

The sun had already set, but the western sky was still bright from its fiery departure not long before. To the east, across the broad Atlantic Ocean, sea fog was forming, a cottony mass that would soon obscure the horizon. At the moment, though, the visibility was good enough for…

The fifth of May has been a Mexican holiday since 1862, and has gradually become a bigger one in America. Like many American holidays, it is now encrusted with humbug and commercialism. As with St. Patrick’s Day, many Americans see it solely as an excuse to drink, eat some ethnic…

Skip to comments. Strong Warnings from the Founders and Early American Leaders for America in 2020 IFB ^ | 5/5/20 | Earl Taylor, Jr. Posted on 05/05/2020 9:27:44 AM PDT by The Ignorant Fisherman Dear Friends, One of the most remarkable observations in the study of history is the caution…