Slavery Abolition

IT HAD BEEN A LONG SATURDAY NIGHT for James Fisk Jr. His unkempt blond hair marked the hours he had been running his hands through it, while his waffle-weave suit struggled to hold in his girth. Bones of Fisk’s food of choice — turkey—— were strewn about. As the clock…

Politwoops » Deleted Tweet from Joe Collins, R-Calif. joecollins43rd (R-Calif.) @joecollins43rd RT @ErrolWebber: On this day in history, April 16, 1862, Republican President Abraham Lincoln signed the bill that abolished slavery… https://t.co/axKp2siZaJ Deleted after 13 seconds about 9 hours ago. Original tweet by @ErrolWebber.Twitter_Logo_Blue It looks like this tweet was…

Just shy of one month into lockdown, the novelty is starting to wear a bit thin – especially when it comes to socialising. Meeting up for Zoom beers or quarantinis over Facetime may have been fun a few weeks ago, but now the jarring interruptions as more than one person…

Inside the cramped and dusty attic overlooking the pale green Kanawha River in the Appalachian Mountains, stacks of 100-year-old business records — deposit books, letters from customers, employee records — balanced precariously on cabinets, lined shelves and sat scattered across the wooden floor.Siblings Nancy Bruns and Lewis Payne stumbled upon…

Today is the 105th day of 2020. There are 261 days left in the year. TODAY'S HIGHLIGHT1993: On International Women's Day, a Chinese newspaper asks 100 women what they would like to be. Sixty say they want to be men.OTHER EVENTS1629: Peace of Susa ends war between England and France.1775:…

Skip to comments. New law allows Virginia localities to remove Confederate statues and monuments Cavalier Daily (Univerity of Virginia) ^ | APr 13,2020 | Zach Rosenthal Posted on 04/13/2020 4:00:55 PM PDT by ml/nj Gov. Ralph Northam, D-Va., signed a bill Saturday allowing individual localities to remove, relocate or contextualize…

Skip to comments. Schumer and Pelosi Tell GOP to 'Stop Political Posturing,' After Dems Blocked Bipartisan Paycheck Protection Funding townhall.com ^ | 4/12/2020 | Reagan McCarthy Posted on 04/13/2020 7:23:23 AM PDT by rktman Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) and Speaker Pelosi released a joint statement Monday morning demanding…

Passover and Easter are brothers, as are Jews and Christians, as are (metaphorically) national talk show host Michael Medved and I. We both grew up in Jewish homes and had immigrant grandparents who grew to love America. He became an Orthodox Jew, I became a Christian, and we’ve both written…

Skip to comments. Hamas Top Dog Tells Israel to Deliver Ventilators, Or 'We’ll Stop the Breathing of Six Million Israelis' FrontPage Magazine ^ | Apr 9, 2020 | Robert Spencer Posted on 04/09/2020 6:50:05 AM PDT by SJackson Where have we heard that number before? Yahya Sinwar, the leader of…

I keep thinking about American history in these days of war against a deadly virus, and why this war feels so much different than the ones we've suffered through before. And why so many of us being asked to do our part by doing nothing feels so strange. "Be a…