On April 15, 2023, it was Jackie Robinson Day, which is the date in 1947 when he made his major league debut. Jackie Robinson’s story is not just one of a baseball player, but of a trailblazer who made history by breaking barriers and inspiring generations with his courage, resilience, and unwavering determination. As we…
The Rosa Parks bus
This is the video of the Rosa Parks bus when I visited the Henry Ford Museum of American Innovation in Dearborn, Michigan. This bus it the real bus and not a replica.
The Henry Ford Museum of American Innovation is excellent
On March 23rd, I was traveling near Detroit, Michigan. I decided to take a quick stop at the Henry Ford Museum of American Innovation. I figured it would be mostly cars on display that Henry Ford created during his time as the country’s premier automobile manufacturer. That was true, but it also has so much…
National Museum of the American Indian could be better
A few days ago, me and my kids went to visit the National Museum of the American Indian in Washington D.C. It is one of the museums that falls under the Smithsonian’s vast network of museums in Washington. In graduate school, where I got my Master’s in Early American History, we had to read a…
The History of the Statue of Liberty
In 1852, Napoleon III, who was the nephew of the original Napoleon, declared himself Emperor of France. He had been President of France via election since 1848, but in 1852, he declared himself a dictator and took full power over France. This, of course, angered many people in France, especially the wealthy. During the American…
Prohibition and the disaster it caused
The Eighteenth Amendment began with thunderous applause. It was decades in the making by a conglomerate of progressives and conservatives who were mostly evangelical Christians. It was none other than the famed Progressive reformist and the founder of the Hull House in Chicago, Jane Addams, who was a strong supporter of the ban on alcohol that…
Hemingway and Male Depression
Ernest Hemingway is considered one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century. He wrote in easy to understand prose that has entertained readers for decades. Hemingway had complicated life. He would marry 4 times, travel the world, participate in World War I, World War 2, be in two plane crashes, and become a heavy…
Kit Carson and Westward Expansion
When Americans look at past Presidencies, and major transformative historical events, they rarely think of the 1840s. However, that is the decade that America became the country it is today. It was the first time that the United States extended from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean. Protege of Andrew Jackson, who became the…
Kennedy was most likely killed by the mafia
The term conspiracy theorist has gotten such a negative connotation that many people stop listening to you as soon as you get designated as one. With social media spreading theories that have no basis in fact, along with a large segment of the population believing everything they see on the internet, it is no wonder…
Will Smith’s latest movie “Emancipation” is based on this real story
In March 1963, a slave named Gordon escaped slavery from plantation in Krotz Springs, Louisiana. He would traverse over 40 miles on foot of the inhospitable land deep in the woods and swamps of Louisiana. He took onions from the plantation to wipe on his body to throw off the scent of the bloodhounds that…
