Category · 8 postsHistory
All posts in the automatic “History” category, newest first.
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June 26, 2020
Roger Williams, Religious Freedom Pioneer
I don’t have any evidence that Roger Williams ever had influenza, and, as far as I know, the only connection between the virus and Pastor…
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October 7, 2018
Created Equal
Here is a laughable headline on a Philip Bump October 6 Washington Post opinion piece: Senators representing less than half the U.S. are about to…
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June 13, 2018
Genius Hamilton, One Fatal Flaw and One Big Mistake
Following now abandoned discussion about removing his image from the ten-dollar bill, Alexander Hamilton, thanks to the eponymous hit musical, is vying for focus of…
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September 4, 2016
Very Helpful US History Book
I am enjoying America’s Forgotten History, Part II, by Mark David Ledbetter. It is self published and available on Amazon Kindle for $1.50. Of course…
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August 14, 2016
Spain’s History of Tyranny, Tolerance, Tribute, and Territorial Struggles
Originally published 3/28/2012 · republished 2016
Originally posted 3/28/2012. Updated 7/28/2018 to include comments by the Montserrat Guide which were previously in a separate post. We just got back from a…
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August 13, 2016
JFK and Changing Times
I was a senior at Vanderbilt on November 22, 1963, the day of President Kennedy’s assassination. JFK had visited Nashville and spoken at Vanderbilt’s Dudley…
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August 11, 2016
Education in America (Well, Tennessee Anyway) – 100 Years Ago (May 12, 2010)
Originally published May 12, 2010 · republished 2016
I wrote a couple of days ago about some changes in education over the past fifty years, but I also have one first-hand account of…
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August 11, 2016
Dillard L. Williams and the Confederate Flag (March 30, 2010)
Originally published March 30, 2010 · republished 2016
Dillard L. Williams is one of my ancestors, my paternal grandfather’s great grandfather. He was born in 1821 and, according to Granddaddy, was murdered in 1864. If…
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