Field Memoranda
“We learn from history that we do not learn from history.” – Georg Hegel
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'A fearsome decision': Abigail Adams had her children inoculated against smallpoxThe future first lady feared inoculation, but she feared smallpox more. It was 1776, and Abigail Adams had decided that she and her four children would seek protection from a deadly...
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Opinion | Remember the Chosin Few this ThanksgivingSeventy Thanksgivings ago, Pfc. Warren Wiedhahn was 21, far from home and freezing. During a winter of record cold, nighttime temperatures were more than 30 degrees below zero in the North Korean mountains.
The story of the Gettysburg Address-and what it can teach us today
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 than 3,000,...
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John McCain demonstrates a civility hard to believe ever existed...
This Day in History
- Moscow’s Domodedovo International Airport is bombed by Chechen terrorists
- Larry Nassar, a former doctor for USA Gymnastics, is sentenced to prison for sexual assault
- Winston Churchill dies
- Walt Disney announces $7.4 billion purchase of Pixar
- Japanese soldier found hiding on Guam
- First canned beer goes on sale
- General Paulus to Hitler: Let us surrender!
- Gold discovered at Sutter’s Creek
- Author Edith Wharton is born
- Emmett Till murderers make magazine confession
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