Things Have Changed

    The Constitution established the structure of the federal government, but the implementation and development was a different matter.  ...

On September 13, 1968, Major General Keith Ware, commander of the 1st Infantry Division, was killed at Loc Ninh, Vietnam when his helicopter...

On this date in 1902, Willis Carrier completed the drawings for what became the world's first modern air conditioning system.  Carrier, ...

In the Forgotten American series , I've profiled people who were never publicly prominent or were prominent once but now are mostly unkn...

( Arnold Bertonneau ) On the afternoon of March 3, 1864, two Creole mixed-race Louisianians from New Orleans, Jean Baptiste Roudanez and E ...

On February 19, 1942 President Roosevelt issued Executive Order 9066 authorizing military commanders to designate "military areas"...

Yesterday Gail Halvorsen died at the age of 101.  I wrote about Halvorsen (though I misspelled his first name) in a post on the Berlin Airl...

Part of the Forgotten Americans series.  This is a reedited and revised version of a post previously published.  I decided to republish the ...

One of the phases of my explorations into baseball history took me back into the origins of professional baseball in America (I wrote about ...