Journal-Courier columnist Jay Jamison writes that everyone should “shut up about race.” But I won’t. I will keep talking about race because Jacksonville’s history is permeated by race. While slavery dominated the South, Jacksonville had a...
Lincoln was called a hypocrite and moral coward for seeming to disavow his own previous position that slavery was an abomination and a sin against nature.
We are about to commemorate the beginning of the end of an era of lawlessness nearly unprecedented i
Were you aware that Newburyport had tunnels? It is a true fact that Newburyport did have tunnels under the ground; some still remain, while others have not been exposed yet. There were two main purposes for these tunnels. One purpose was to deny the British Empire from receiving taxation on the goods and imports that they brought into Newburyport by boats from all over the world. The second ...
It was the war before the war. During the period known as Bleeding Kansas, pro-slavery and abolitionist settlers killed one another in Kansas and Missouri between 1854 and the start of the Civil War in 1861.
Hi, there, we're Bert and Ernie. We are big boys — big love bugs! Our owner passed away awhile back, and his family didn't want to take care of us, so they brought us to a vet to have us put to sleep — but lucky for us, the vet offered to take us in instead, and then she asked MRFRS to take care of us. We've been hanging out with the nice people at The Cat Tail Inn down at Muddy Creek Animal ...
Website Will Intensify Conflict Between NAACP and Tea Party Activists, Who Strongly Deny That Their Movement is Racist
September is Washington D.C.’s Human Trafficking Awareness Month, the event which was established thanks to the efforts of the DC Task Force on Human Trafficking. The Task Force was established in 2004 with the DC police department and the DC US Attorney’s office. Since the establishment of the Task Force, membership [...]
History Dept. This week, the Paul Revere Memorial Association and the Old South Meeting House kick off a free, month-long lecture series to take place at the latter. Listen my children and you shall hear Of the midnight ride of Paul Revere, On the eighteenth of April, in Seventy-five; Hardly a man is now alive Who remembers that famous day and year. Most will recognize the lines above as the ...
Why it's worth reading Daniel Walker Howe's "What Hath God Wrought"—an essential history of antebellum America John Quincy Adams - Daniel Walker Howe - South Carolina - United States - American Revolution
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This was the night London's most promising young theatre director really delivered. Rupert Goold's production of Macbeth, starring Patrick Stewart as an ageing, Stalinist tyrant ultimately trapped in a tiled basement cell of his own making, opened in the West End to rapturous reviews on Wednesday night.
Abstract: Although there are many scholarly treatments of the Founders’ understanding of property and economics, few of them present an overview of the complete package of the principles and policies upon which they agreed. Even the fact that there was a consensus among the Founders is often denied.
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SALISBURY BEACH — A surfer rolled by a wave off Salisbury Beach yesterday afternoon was pulled out of the water and standing under his own power soon after the tumble occurred. According to police and fire personnel, the event, which attracted a lot of attention and generated a number of calls, turned out well for all involved. The unidentified surfer was pulled out of the surf quickly after the ...
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