by admin | Apr 30, 2014 | History
According to wikipedia By 1767, Jesuit missionaries on the peninsula of Baja California had established approximately 23 missions over a period of 72 years. Rumors were circulating that the Jesuits had amassed a fortune and were becoming very powerful. As part of the...
by admin | Apr 23, 2014 | History
The American Lynching-Mob is an unpublished typescript. It is nicely bound which I thought might have accounted for it being passed among collectors since 1906, but it turns out that the author’s descendent only recently put it on the market. Dean Richmond...
by admin | Nov 22, 2013 | History
Originally published on Forbes.com Nov 22nd, 2013 I remember Sr. Jane Aloysius, who was the music expert at St. John the Baptist grammar school in Fairview, NJ, sitting at the piano and playing the tune to Harrigan but having us second graders substitute...
by admin | Nov 20, 2013 | History
Originally published on Forbes.com Nov 20th, 2013 When last you heard from me my covivant was chiding me for subjecting us to an extra hour or so of chilly weather sitting in plastic chairs waiting for the “Dedication Day” ceremonies to commence....
by admin | Nov 19, 2013 | History, Tax
Originally published on Forbes.com Nov 19th, 2013 It was quiet in Gettysburg yesterday afternoon. My covivant and I stopped at the National Cemetery around 4:00 and only a couple of people were there. Plastic chairs were already set up facing the podium. A...
by admin | Oct 31, 2013 | Books, History
Originally published on Forbes.com Oct 31st, 2013 In the last Presidential election, I knew my candidate, Jill Stein, was not going to win. I was comforted by the belief that at the Sesquicentennial of the Gettysburg Address, we would have either a member of Mr....
