Tag: American History

• On This Perverse Independence Day, A Reminder — American Exceptionalism Is REAL: It’s Our DIVERSITY…

  Today may be July 4, but it doesn’t feel like a normal Independence Day. More like… Trumpendance Day. Not a national celebration, a national tragedy. If our problem were only Donald Trump — his corruption, his crime family and their spider web of self-serving criminal enterprises — his treason — this “problem” would have been…

  A L Katz

  July 4, 2019

  Back It Up Or It’s Bullshit, False Patriotism, Live Bullshit Free, Magical Thinking, Magical Thinking, New Ways of Thinking, Political Commentary, Republicanism, Trump

  American Civil War, American Exceptionalism, American History, Donald Trump, Independence Day, Republican corruption, Republicans, SCOTUS, Slavery, Trumpism

• America: ‘Died Of A Theory’?

  I’m a History Geek.  Among the History topics that Geek me out most is The Civil War — you know, that ‘thing’ we fought for ‘States Rights’ according to Revisionist (Southern) History but really fought cos SLAVERY. Ken Burns’ ‘Civil War’ series is Nirvana.  The first time I heard David McCoullough’s exquisite baritone caressing the…

  A L Katz

  June 15, 2018

  New Ways of Thinking, Political Commentary, Trump, Uncategorized

  American Civil War, American History, David McCoullough, Ken Burns’ Civil War, Slavery, Sullivan Ballou