Category: History
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Lincoln Greater, Says Ida M. Tarbell, Each Passing Year
President Abraham Lincoln’s renown has only great since his already-legendary stature described here in 1917. The Lincoln Memorial would not open for another five years until 1922, Steven Spielberg’s Oscar-winning biopic starring Daniel Day-Lewis wouldn’t open for another 95 years until 2012. The best sentence in the article describes a silver lining of the dark […]
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Nation to Honor Lafayette Next Wednesday
How would people in 1916 have reacted if told that, a century later, Daveed Diggs — a black man — would win the Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Musical for his rapping role as Marquis de Lafayette? Nation to Honor Lafayette Next Wednesday: 159th Anniversary of Birthday of French Hero of American […]
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Preparedness Prevented Mexican War in 1866
A war was avoided in 1866 because it was known that the U.S. had millions of soldiers it could call upon in a moment. The U.S. Senate this week approved 85 to 13 a provision that would require women to register for the military draft, which for the country’s entire history only men have been required […]
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