by Nomad The date of August 28 has special significance to all Americans, but particularly to African Americans. 1833 - First ...

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by Nomad In this the third and final post of the series, we examine how the curse of the revolutionary madness was lifted, how the fa...

by Nomad In the first part of this series, we profiled the Sanson family- the official executioners for imperial France before the Revo...

by Nomad N ot too long ago, I spent about a month reading The Memoirs of  Sanson Family . I am pretty certain you've never heard o...

by Nomad History has all kinds of interesting lessons to teach us. Here is one I recently found.  The Saviors that Failed The ancie...

by Nomad It's really hard to believe that an entire decade has passed since John McCain's vice presidential candidate stepp...

by  Bernie Neufeld, Guest Contributor O ne of our nomads, Linda, recently asked me if I would be interested in posting an article writ...

by Nomad (This post was originally published on December 5, 2015.) When the Founding Fathers declared that a government ear...

by Nomad S téphane Frédéric Hessel isn't a name you are likely to recognize but that doesn't mean he wasn't an influentia...

  by Nomad Controversy over "Confederate" R ecently HBO announced its plan to produce an alternative history called Confede...

by Nomad A s you all know, last week, I posted a quiz involving questions from the US naturalization application. I was happy- thoug...

 by Nomad T he artist David Hockney once said: We seem to live in an arrogant age; in fact, the idea that there's not much to ...

by Nomad Here's an obscure bit of trivia about our 32nd President president: a story of a path that was never taken and that made ...

by Nomad A Voice for the Silenced T he sixth of June marks a historically important day. It is, most famously, the day that saw th...

by Nomad S couring the archive again. In a 2015 post, This Day in History: When Bankers and Big Business Betrayed a Nation , we exa...

by Nomad Over a hundred years, this progressive essayist from asked a vital question: Can there be any meaning of the word "f...

by Nomad In Part One , we took a look at how the approaching World War provided an opportunity to reform hiring practices in the defense...

by Nomad This post will take us on a merry ride through history, both ancient and modern. It involves a murder of a tyrant and a play ...

by Nomad The life and words of Dietrich Bonhoeffer underscore a fundamental truth: silence in the face of evil is a form of complici...