Just not first. The Founders were all wealthy men by the standards of the day. But they were neither wealthy nor powerful by the standards of the peerage class, the aristocracy, which arrived by appointments from the King once the American colonies…
Category: American Exceptionalism
Teaching Kids About America, a Beginning
In the “Taking Back our Schools” Department, we should have figured out by now we need to be more face-to-face about the changes we want to see returned to our public schools. We’re outlining a teaching program at VeteransTales.org, “Vets…
Thomas Paine, A Common Sense Curriculum
I wonder if millennials even know who Thomas Paine was. In the early 1960s I studied American History in college, as a required core subject, courses even engineering students from India had to take in order to get a degree. I’m not…