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Category: History

Should Andy Jackson be left seated on his bronze horse?

June 23, 2020

Even in well motivated crowds some people go off the rails. Such is the case of the BLACK LIVES MATTER protests sweeping the nation….

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Juneteenth

June 19, 2020

Donald Trump is now telling folks that thanks to him Americans are finally learning about Juneteenth: Trump, who has few African-American advisers in the…

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Stars Bars and the KKK

June 16, 2020

I won’t vouch for the accuracy of this Facebook found story of the Confederacy’s flag but I suspect its true. In any event, in…

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S asks me to explain some puzzling US History

June 14, 2020

After I sent S. the close up photo of my Lincoln tie S was troubled by the strange fact that Republican Abe Lincoln should…

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June 6

June 6, 2020

One of the more bucolic photos of D-Day in a collection of about 400 recently found and placed on a Flickr account. https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2020/06/06/d-day-photos-remembrance/

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Reconciliation

June 5, 2020

While another Minnesota atrocity has led to protest marches far beyond the borders of Minnesota and the United States other Minnesota locales are attempting…

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Throughline

June 5, 2020

I can’t find NPR’s short piece from this morning about how policing developed in the United States from something closer to vigilantism to catch…

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The George S Robb Center recognizes soldiers short changed due to their race

June 4, 2020

A wonderful legacy of my Grandfather’s life from his old Alma Mater:

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I vent for my French penpal over today’s headlines and Donald Trump

May 28, 2020

This morning as I woke to headlines coming from Minneapolis. My innocent French penpal asked how my book writing was going and then asked…

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Grant stayed calm and improvised through the battle. Me too.

May 26, 2020

Last night we watched the first of the three part History Channel series on Ulysses S. Grant. Its good because Historian Ron Chernow was…

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I will be watching this

May 25, 2020

US Grant on the History Channel https://www.thedailybeast.com/leonardo-dicaprios-big-middle-finger-to-the-confederacy?ref=home And here is confirmation from my Grandfather in a 2013 post about my Grandfather defending Grant’s honor…

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The War over telling History

May 25, 2020

Amazon Customers loved this book on George Washington but not all the book’s reviewers agreed with the general consensus. Thus: “This is what happens…

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Science worth considering

May 1, 2020

Two stories from the NYT are more proof that the Times has become my go-to media for science news: 3 Africans in Mexico City…

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An analogy – The corona virus always strikes one person first when it enters a new country

April 30, 2020

I’m feeling like my cat Moloch’s meow. No. This post is not about the corona virus. Its an analogy pointing out that what can…

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News from Duluth’s Russian sister city

April 27, 2020

He Found One of Stalin’s Mass Graves. Now He’s in Jail. https://nyti.ms/2xb6bMi

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Two shows to Stream

April 22, 2020

I found this map in Wikipedia while reading the book on the black Death by Norman Cantor. Cantor mentions how the ignorant Europeans decided…

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Lincoln books presidents

April 22, 2020

“Lincoln books presidents” I woke up after 5 hours of sleep thinking about going to movie 2001 Space Odyssey when I was in college…

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The Case for Two Centrist Parties

March 29, 2020

I believe the Trump supporters have been accused of wanting to go back to the days of Ozzie and Harriet, My Three Sons and…

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Imperfect Union

March 12, 2020

I have been reading this book to Claudia for the past couple weeks. Steve Inskeep is as instructive a historian as he is as…

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MA2A – Making America 2 Again

February 25, 2020

As I was putting the final coats of gray, blue and orange on my sculpture a photo journalist from the Strib, Alex Korman, was…

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