Slavery Abolition

 Many comics historians and collectors reading this will be familiar with the name Holyoke Publishing Company (called that because of its Holyoke, Massachusetts facility) due to the printing and publishing company owned by Sherman Bowles, which made a brief but memorable contribution to golden age comics history around 1942-48.  During…

James Thornton Harris is a contributing editor to the History News Network. For more information see www.JamesThorntonHarris.com. “History makes what happened comprehensible by reducing events to a dramatic pattern and seeing them in a simple form,” wrote historian Johan Huizinga some one hundred years ago.   To establish dramatic patterns for their readers,…

Gimson’s Presidents: Brief Lives From Washington To TrumpAndrew GimsonSquare Peg £10.99Rating: Moving into the White House, which had just been built in the middle of a rutted field, America’s second president, John Adams, prayed: ‘May none but Honest and Wise Men ever rule under This Roof.’Alas, his wish was not…

Skip to comments. Think Trump is ‘outrageous?’ He’s nothing compared to these past presidents New York Post ^ | February 29, 2020 | Kyle Smith Posted on 02/29/2020 3:54:39 PM PST by karpov Unprecedented, unprecedented. Everything is unprecedented. Nothing like this has ever happened before. Except it pretty much has.…

Everybody occasionally wonders if they should bother to vote. To help out, we have quotes from 10 great minds explaining why voting, and participation in politics in general, is the right thing to do. Some of them will inspire you, some will scare you, and some are pretty funny. Very…

PITTSBURGH — (AP) — On a hot July Monday in 1872, 23-year-old Benjamin W. Thomas climbed the steps of a Downtown Pittsburgh bank guarded by two massive, hand-carved stone lions. Standing in a room with black and white marble floors, white marble counters, a ceiling adorned by a circle of…

The Republican Party, which some of us still hope to reform and which others have left, no longer deals in principle, morality, or the pursuit of the common welfare. February 27, 2020 Independent political strategist and adviser for the Lincoln Project National political strategist and adviser for the Lincoln Project…

SmartNews Keeping you current Miami-Dade County commissioners unanimously approved plans to rename local stretches of Dixie Highway A Dixie Highway marker on Georgia State Route 3 (Michael Rivera via Wikimedia Commons under CC BY-SA 3.0) smithsonianmag.com February 25, 2020 Dixie Highway, a 5,786-mile route spanning ten states, stretches from Michigan…

In the throes of the worst crisis in American history, the Civil War, Democrats in Congress repeatedly attacked Abraham Lincoln as a “tyrant” and even his fellow Republicans questioned his competence and investigated his generals. Beleaguered though he often felt, Lincoln never claimed that Congress lacked the authority to challenge…

Those five famous words from the Declaration of Independence sound simple enough: all men are created equal. For nearly 250 years, the U.S. has leaned on that founding proposition. In theory, its meaning is clear. In practice, battles have raged—sometimes literally—over what it means, not just for American government but…