Things Have Changed

After completing my July 4 post on President Coolidge's speech on the 150th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, I went on to...

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

Sad news today.  Gordon S Wood, the great historian of early America, died when hit by a car in the parking lot of a Shaw's supermarket ...

  It's 95 years since Willie Mays was born in Alabama on May 6, 1931. Willie, who passed at 93, began his major league career with the G...

  On this date in 1863 occurred the Union assault on Fort Wagner near Charleston, SC, an event depicted in the movie Glory .  If you saw the...

On this date in 1860, Abraham Lincoln spoke in New York City at Cooper Union Hall.  Lincoln had come to national attention through his serie...

It was in 1929 that Louis Armstrong became a pop star, breaking through to white audiences.  Over the prior five years he'd been recogni...

Yesterday, I read a piece by Joseph Epstein in the Wall Street Journal, "Maybe It's Time for Jewish Self-Segregation", prompte...

Bernard Bailyn, one of the leading scholars of colonial America was 89 when The Barbarous Years: The Peopling of British North America: The ...

In a sea of white male faces in what looks like a late 19th century photo stands, in the center of the second row, a black woman.  What is ...

John Robert Fox received the Medal of Honor for his actions on December 26, 1944.  Fox was a 29 year old first lieutenant and a forward art...

Going through my old books I came across Great Moments in History by Samuel Nisenson and Alfred Parker.  Published in 1932, Great Moments h...

  An edited reprint of a prior Things Have Changed post I've spent some time exploring the early history of professional baseball in Ame...