I grew up in the South in the 50s and 60s and it was always the “Democrat Party”. But then again, it was only a coal camp with a county newspaper. I never knew there was a rub about that…
Author: vassar
Wikipedia and the Killing of History, a Guide
This will be a short note to highlight a link to a subject I researched for a commentary about Manifest Destiny mentioned in historian Bernard DeVoto’s book 1846, the Year of Decision (1943). Almost no American student, history major or…
Manifest Destiny
You’ve no doubt heard the term “Manifest Destiny”, as referring to the zeitgeist of our Nation as it expanded Westward, more specifically as Americans lined up wagon train after wagon train to emigrate to Oregon and California in the 1840s…