by drkeithcox | Jan 12, 2020 | History Matters, Main
To My Fellow Patriots Whether you are a Democrat or Republican, Progressive or Centrist or Conservative, love Trump or hate Trump or don’t care about Trump one way or the other, male or female or something else, whether you are Catholic or Protestant,...
by drkeithcox | Jan 8, 2020 | History Matters, Main
20 year old Quentin Roosevelt, youngest son of Theodore Roosevelt, is the only child of a US President ever to die in war. Theodore Roosevelt was intensely critical of Woodrow Wilson’s attempt to keep the US out of World War I and always enthusiastic about the use of...
by drkeithcox | Dec 24, 2019 | History Matters, Main
On Christmas Eve in 1944, the snow turned red with blood On Christmas Eve 1944, in the besieged Belgian town of Bastogne, a U.S. Army doctor named John T. Prior was about to write a letter for a dying officer in the makeshift hospital next door. It was a lousy...
by drkeithcox | Dec 7, 2019 | History Matters, Main
German WWI wreck discovered off Falklands The wreck of a World War One German armoured cruiser has been located off the Falkland Islands, where it was sunk by the British navy 105 years ago. SMS Scharnhorst was the flagship of German Vice-Admiral Maximilian...
by drkeithcox | Nov 28, 2019 | History Matters, Main
Between 1942 and 1949, approximately 20,000 African-American men completed recruit training and became known as the “Montford Point Marines.” Despite the challenges presented to those Montford Point Marines, their valor and performance at Peleliu, Iwo...
by drkeithcox | Sep 29, 2019 | History Matters, Main
David Greenberg has published an op-ed in Politico (link below) arguing that we ought not compare Trump’s impeachment to that of any of the other Presidents who have faced impeachment. He rightly points out that the context of all of the other instances is...
