Posts Tagged ‘Trump’
Generations: Past, Present, and Future
I’ve been thinking a lot lately about generations. My thoughts are prompted in part by much ado about President Biden, who is 80, and not enough ado about DJT, who…
Read MoreHarriet Newby’s “One Bright Hope”
“I want you to buy me as soon as possible, for if you do not get me some body else will,” Harriet, an enslaved house servant, wrote on this day…
Read MorePearl Harbor Day 2020
Dec. 7, 1941 – 79 years ago today – may indeed be a date that lives in infamy, even if barely remembered. A total of 2,403 died that day from…
Read MoreWe Gather Together–Apart
Happy Thanksgiving! (Or Happy Day After Thanksgiving, if you are seeing this on Friday) Today’s papers are filled with solemn holiday columns commenting on the sadness and irony we are…
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