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By RedState on Dec 11, 2018 in: Education, Politics, War, History
I’ve had a bone to pick with James Taylor for years — because, despite the suggestion of his lyrics, there is no place called “Carolina.” Now I wander the earth as a hypocrite, due to the above headline. However,...
By RedState on Dec 10, 2018 in: Podcast, children, History, kids
With Hanukkah celebrations underway around the world, we’re taking some time this week to talk about how Jewish holidays were celebrated in colonial America. 12 year-old Zachary joins us with questions about holidays and Jewish culture, and An...
By Life Hacker on Dec 10, 2018 in: history, music
Why do your children need Hamilton in their lives? It’s true that the musical—a biopic of founding father Alexander Hamilton—is almost three hours long and tackles a variety of adult themes: war, government, sex, deceit, murder. It’s also, h...
By Art and Architecture, mainly on Dec 10, 2018 in: history, women
Avery Brundage (1887-1975) graduated civil engineering from the University of Illinois in 1909. His links to anti-Semitism was first seen in his university days, where he was president of a fraternity chapter who would accept any Aryan male...
By jobsanger on Dec 9, 2018 in: history, psychology
The chart above, from The Telegraph, shows the Psychopathic Personality Inventory score of some rather heinous historical figures. The answers to the test (which reveals psychopathic tendencies) were given by experts on those figures.Donald Trump sco...
By Think Progress on Dec 8, 2018 in: News, History, Politics
Veteran Affairs secretary Robert Wilkie is coming under renewed criticism for his ties to groups that glorify the Confederacy. In a report published Friday, CNN revealed comments Wilkie made as recently as 2009 praising Confederate President Jeffers...
Imagine someone demonstrating a jet plane 15 years before Kitty Hawk. Imagine someone demonstrating a smartphone 15 years before the first cellular networks were even launched. Imagine someone demonstrating a controlled nuclear chain reaction 15 year...