SPEL KAT

What 8th graders knew in 1910 extrapolate I post this 1910 graduation test every 10 years. Nobody here will answer all correctly, but you get the idea.

Rebel Yell

Rebel Yell I seem to remember historian Shelby Foote discussing how discombobulating the "Rebel Yell" was to Union troops.  "Of course nobody today knows what it sounded like, but I think it was something like this [gave his version]."  Well here's the real thing by the real Rebs. You're welcome

Too many Bronzed Whit Guys

DEM RACISTS/RACIALISTS

Interior Secretary: More Diversity Needed In National Monuments – ‘Bronze White Guy’ Too Prevalent “If you drive around Washington, D.C., in every circle and every square you generally see a bronze white guy – sometimes on a horse, sometimes not - you have to work really hard – like in front of the Indian embassy you’ll find Mahatma Gandhi,” Jewell said. [Full] Must I explain it to Ms. Jewell? Of course not. Waste of time.

The Marshall Court

The Marshall Court Tom Richey is a fabulous teacher (Although he does remind me of Eric Stratton in Animal House). The Marbury v Madison case was key to allowing today's courts to effectively become an oligarchy. This is how it happened, in plain English.

A Life of Hard Labor

The Road To Perdition Began on 3rd and C Streets, N.W. No.  Not the aptly named War Dept.

A Man With a Plan

My Dinner with Oliver Cromwell “ I have utterly no idea why Oliver Cromwell has been on my mind since the election.  Or, on my mind at all.  Yet, on November 4th, in contemplation of the coming election, I observed: I think our nation is at a tipping point.  Should Obama emerge as the surprise winner Tuesday, most people will see foul play, and be properly outraged.  And?  And nothing.  There will be nothing anyone can do about it.  There will be no spontaneous march on Washington by pitchfork bearing populace.  The nation's only hope at that point would be a military coup to wrest control of the nation from the Obamunist party rule.  And even then, we shall have lost. Well, maybe not.  Britain survived Cromwell.   I'd take a coup (Jeffersonian activism?) over a killer second Obama term.  The morning after the election, I went to Ollie again, for a text message to the GOP. Ye are grown intolerably odious to the whole nation; you were deputed here by the people to get grievances redress'd, are yourselves gone! So! Take away that shining bauble there, and lock up the doors. In the name of God, go! And here now, he's popped up again!   Maybe because of our dire circumstances, the founders, who were most certainly versed in English history, sent him to me.  Think about it.  Ollie's place in history is— He began a civil war against the monarchy. He defeated in battle, and hanged or and burnt at the stake the monarchists and their armies. He captured the king and cut his head off. He dismissed Parliament,  and cut many of their heads off. He  later came to understand that the people were more comfortable, and better off with the old rule, so  he restored  the monarchy. My God!  What more could we ask for today?  ”

The Other Cuban Missile Crisis

Cuban missile crisis: The other, secret one “ Fearing that Castro's hurt pride and widespread Cuban indignation over the concessions Khrushchev had made to Kennedy, might lead to a breakdown of the agreement between the superpowers, the Soviet leader concocted a plan to give Castro a consolation prize. The prize was an offer to give Cuba more than 100 tactical nuclear weapons that had been shipped to Cuba along with the long-range missiles, but which crucially had passed completely under the radar of US intelligence. Khrushchev concluded that because the Americans hadn't listed the missiles on their list of demands, the Soviet Union's interests would be well served by keeping them in Cuba. [Full] The CMC is really the only perceived Kennedy accomplishment that can, or has been cited.  That he made promises to Khrushchev, which effectively nullified the Monroe Doctrine, and secretly removed defenses based in Europe,  were not even revealed to congress, and certainly not bally-hood by the media once learned of, is another consideration. In another 50 years we'll know still more about what's been hidden from us by our keepers.  I suspect TWA 800, 9-11,  Oklahoma City bombing, treasonous actions by Clinton with China, and that Obama was in fact an escaped mental patient will titillate historians in another 50 years.  We'll be dead and won't care. ”

History Crib Notes

Future History Class Crib Notes Chapter WTF Happened?