Here are ten facts about the American founding that are worth knowing and contemplating as our country celebrates its independence on the Fourth of July. 1.At the time of the passage and signing of the Declaration, roughly 2.15 million persons lived in the 13 colonies. Of those not enslaved,...
Although the U.S. government stayed neutral in the Spanish Civil War, about 2,800 Americans—many of whom had never before fired a gun—volunteered for the Republican cause. A diverse bunch, their unit, the so-called Abraham Lincoln Battalion, included a vaudeville acrobat, a rabbi and the ...
What follows is a personal story, but what it tells us about enduring systems of power and harm goes far beyond my person. That weathered feminist truth that the personal is always also political rings true still. What I experienced in the world of “defence men” – the global war elite ...
Back in 1984, writers Stephen King and Peter Straub collaborated on the fantasy novel The Talisman, in which a 12-year-old boy named Jack Sawyer goes on a cross-country journey to save the life of his ailing mother – a journey that takes him not just through the American heartland but ...
thebenigntreatment of theenvironmentby humans; and through a reassessment ofhumanity’s relationship with nature. In various ways, environmentalism claims that living things other than humans, and the natural environment as a whole, are deserving of consideration in reasoning about themoralityof politica...
Tim O’Brien is an American novelist noted for his writings about American soldiers in the Vietnam War. His books include the nonfiction If I Die in a Combat Zone, Box Me Up and Ship Me Home (1973) and the novels Going After Cacciato (1978), The Things T
In fact, it’s believed that more Americans were killed or wounded in one day of fighting at Antietam than in the entire War of 1812, itself the seventh-deadliest conflict in U.S. history. Since the Civil War, only World War II has come close in terms of American deaths, with 405,...
Look, I don’t know everything about everything. But, what I do know is that I have been living in NYC for all my life (30+ years). Eventually, I started to run out of things to do. I mean, how many times can you go to the top of the Empire State Building? So, I started...
3.What do you learn about Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe from the passage? A. She had been living in the north of America before the American Civil War broke out. B.She herself encouraged the Northern Americans to go to war to set the slaves free. ...
American independence was the right call Max Mumby/Indigo/Getty Images We wouldn't have a United States without a war of independence. A great majority of Americans —78%, in fact— believe that declaring independence from what is now the United Kingdom was a fantastic idea. ...