A recent trip through Tennessee allowed us to see two presidential museums: Andrew Jackson’s Hermitage in Nashville and the President James K. Polk Home and Museum in Columbia.* Both are quite enlightening in their way.
The Hermitage, first acquired by […] Continue Reading…
The book referenced below, Hugh Williams, ed., National Songs and Poetical Pieces Dedicated to the Queen and her Countrywomen (London: Hetherington, 1839), illustrates just how informative and fun primary sources can be. For instance, I was completely unaware of […] Continue Reading…
I mentioned below that there was always a strain of anti-British, republican sentiment among the denizens of British North America. The most glaring expression of this occurred in 1837-38, when simultaneous rebellions broke out in Upper and Lower Canada, […] Continue Reading…
A happy Dominion Day to my fellow Canadians. To celebrate, I post something I found as the result of an image search.
Rubylane.com.It’s a nine-quartered Canadian coat of arms from a Wedgewood plate manufactured c. 1910. […] Continue Reading…
To a post from a few years ago:
Brilliant Maps.This is what North America would have looked like had Nathaniel P. Banks’s Annexation Bill of 1866 passed into law, and been accepted by the United Kingdom. […] Continue Reading…
A trip to Minneapolis allowed us to see George Floyd Square, an urban autonomous zone parallel to Seattle’s CHAZ or “Free Derry” from the early 1970s. It is centered on the intersection of Chicago Ave. and E. 38th St., […] Continue Reading…
From the Financial Post:
In an uncertain time, forays into the past for advice are becoming ever more common. They often make for grim reading, like the attempts to harness the “spirit of the Blitz” in the United Kingdom post-Brexit […] Continue Reading…
The Areopagus, according to Wikipedia, “is a prominent rock outcropping located northwest of the Acropolis in Athens, Greece. Its English name is the Late Latin composite form of the Greek name Areios Pagos, translated “Ares Rock” (Ancient Greek: Ἄρειος […] Continue Reading…
Pleased to note that my student Addy Huneke, who loves to study history, is resistant to romanticizing it. From her blog, The Music of a Story:
It’s Time to Stop Romanticizing the Past
I hear it all the time from many […] Continue Reading…
A followup to my post about Pasaquan: Paradise Garden, located between Summerville and Trion in Chattooga County, Georgia, is another visionary art compound, constructed by Howard Finster (1916-2001). Finster was a Baptist preacher and ran a bicycle repair business; […] Continue Reading…