Slavery Abolition

Like a lot of relationships, my feelings about Black History Month are complicated. On the one hand, I deeply appreciate the time to intentionally celebrate the brilliant contributions to American culture and history by people who look like me. But while abso…

Despite numerous polls and seemingly endless debates, the identity of the next Democratic presidential candidate is still far from clear. If the upcoming Iowa caucuses and winter primaries fail to winnow a crowded field, the July Democratic National Convention in Milwaukee might yield a surprise. The primary map is currently…

Who fought for queer freedom a century before Stonewall. His name was William Dorsey Swann, but to his friends he was known as “the Queen.” Both of those names had been forgotten for nearly a century before I rediscovered them while researching at Columbia University. Born in Maryland around 1858,…

Michael Barone, a resident fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, has been an author of the annual Almanac of American Politics ever since its first edition in 1971. When I was a child, I had a teacher who had memorized every word of the Old Testament i…

Paine's words, which greatly inspired our founding, contrast sharply with the America we have come to inhabit. Wednesday, January 29, 2020 Image Credit: Flickr-Matt Brown | CC BY 2.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/) January 29 is the birthday of Thomas Paine (1737-1809), the fiery rhetorician of America’s revolution whose importance was such that…

12 Like Posted in Photoshop       27 Jan 2020       3524       10 Becca Saladin started “Royalty Now” in February of 2019, simply as a way for her to see her favorite historical figure, Anne Boleyn, as a modern woman. She started the account to satisfy her own curiosity about…

Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos came under heavy criticism after comparing the abortion rights debate to the battle to end slavery during a speech to Christian students Wednesday in Washington. DeVos claimed that former Republican President Abraham Lincol…

Critics of the legislation say that it perpetuates myths about abortions and that there are already safeguards in place for protecting infants. News on abortion laws comes out of Kentucky, Tennessee and Virginia, as well. The Associated Press: Kentucky Bill Requires Care For Infants Surviving Abortion A bill that would…

U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos said there is "irony" in "being 'pro-choice' for the mother who seeks an abortion, but not for the mother who seeks a different school for her child," in remarks to Colorado Christian College students at the Museum of the Bible in Washington Wednesday. In those…

The name Martin Luther King Jr. is iconic in the United States. President Barack Obama mentioned King in both his Democratic National Convention nomination acceptance and victory speeches in 2008, when he said, brought Americans from every corner of t…