Happy Independence Day!
(Original artwork compliments of my six-year-old).
Today’s book club assignment may be found here.
Filed under: Family, Announcements, Children, U.S., History
(Original artwork compliments of my six-year-old).
Today’s book club assignment may be found here.
Filed under: Family, Announcements, Children, U.S., History
In the current issue of Rolling Stone, historian Sean Wilentz ponders “whether [George W. Bush], in fact, will be remembered as the very worst president in all of American history”:
By contrast, the Bush administration — in seeking to restore what Cheney, a Nixon administration veteran, has called “the legitimate authority of the presidency” — threatens […]
On December 1, 1955, Chapter 6, Section 11 of the City Code of Montgomery, Alabama prescribed that the first four rows of public bus seats were reserved for “white people.” Although more than 75% of Montgomery city bus passengers were black, the ordinance also required black patrons sitting in the “colored section” to […]