by drkeithcox | Nov 26, 2020 | History Matters
Proclamation of Thanksgiving This is the proclamation which set the precedent for America’s national day of Thanksgiving. During his administration, President Lincoln issued many orders similar to this. For example, on November 28, 1861, he ordered government...
by drkeithcox | Nov 22, 2020 | History Matters
“Here is a man who under the most difficult, adverse circumstances that one can imagine was able to stand up, speak in a mature and independent fashion, and evaluate the world around him critically.” Escaped slave and Navy sailor recounted his remarkable...
by drkeithcox | Nov 21, 2020 | History Matters
So why didn’t the founders plan for this particular scenario, of a president simply denying that he had lost an election? Because they couldn’t even fathom it, Engel said. “They couldn’t fathom two things: a person who had become president who was so utterly lacking...
by drkeithcox | Nov 20, 2020 | _externaldispatch
The story of the Gettysburg Address-and what it can teach us today He arrived in the small Pennsylvania town on November 18, 1863, a day before he was to give one of his few national addresses. He wasn’t alone. Gettysburg’s population at the time was less...
by drkeithcox | Nov 15, 2020 | History Matters, Main
“For me, being 6 years old, I really wasn’t aware of what was going on,” Bridges, now 66, told NPR in 2010. “I mean the only thing that I was ever told by my parents that I was going to attend a new school and that I should behave.”...
