Yearly Archives: 2006

Frankly, this editorial from the UK on the Iraq situation makes a lot of sense: That America’s real error was not the invasion of Iraq, but the failure to plan and manage its reconstruction seems never to have occurred either … Continue reading →

Edmund S. Morgan is a personal favorite of mine.  He is one of our greatest living historians.  He has challenged his readers with his sensible and thoughtful writing.  He was a student in London in 1938 and traveled to Europe … Continue reading →

Here’s a sad story. We’re losing our WWII vets and soon there will not be many left. According to one report, some 1,300 World War II veterans die each day.  The more we can do to honor our greatest generation … Continue reading →

While doing some research online at newspaperarchive.com I came across this report in the Richland County Observer (12/27/1861). Considering how difficult it was (at least for me, but I did find it) to find this information and put it together … Continue reading →

From Jonathan Rosenberg of The Christian Science Monitor comes an excellent review of Thomas Bender’s book, A Nation Among Nations: America’s Place in World History.  A book that will give us a perspective on the question, “Interventionism Or Isolationism?” Rosenberg … Continue reading →

According to retired teacher George Purlee over 4,000 women served in the Civil War.  They disguised their appearance and sometimes “fought alongside husbands or boyfriends or spied.” “[They] had to take on the same qualities as a man,” Purlee said. … Continue reading →

Military historian (and author) Victor Davis Hanson spoke last Thursday at Lehigh University and according to the student newspaper his central theme was that, “wars are a product of human nature and emotional grievances rather than material conquests.”  For some … Continue reading →

“Years ago, schoolchildren in Posey County, Ind., would knock on Robert Johnson’s door and ask for a special family keepsake to take to their classroom for show and tell. What they asked to borrow had belonged originally to Robert’s grandfather, … Continue reading →

A recent report released by the U.S. Embassy and military command in Baghdad titled, “Provincial Stability Assessment,” shows that Iraq is still very far from stabilizing.  In the  “province-by-province” report of Iraq’s stability (economic and security), six of the 18 … Continue reading →

“When Framingham’s Stuart Chambers went looking for his great-grandfather, who served in the Civil War, he never suspected how long his search would last. The project took years. As he scoured historical society files, pored over government archives, and visited … Continue reading →