by drkeithcox | Sep 13, 2019 | History Matters, Main
This 80th anniversary of World War II is an opportunity to reconsider how the world reached that dark defile, in which some 70 million people died. An opportunity, too, to remember the words of the American judge Learned Hand, on how free and civilized people can come...
by drkeithcox | Sep 11, 2019 | Uncategorized
In August of 2019 the New York Times published a series of articles called the 1619 Project. in print and online commemorating the 400-year anniversary of the introduction of African slaves in the North America. The publishers inform that the project “aims to reframe...
by drkeithcox | Sep 2, 2019 | History Matters, Main
The two most dynamic movements that reshaped the nation during the past three decades are the labor and civil rights movements. Our combined strength is potentially enormous. We have not used a fraction of it for our own good or for the needs of society as a whole. If...
by drkeithcox | Sep 1, 2019 | Early Modern England, Primary Sources, Resources
The full proceedings of the High Court of Iustice against King Charles in Westminster Hall, on Saturday the 20 of January, 1648 together with the Kings reasons and speeches and his deportment on the scaffold before his execution Charles I, King of England, 1600-1649,...
by drkeithcox | Sep 1, 2019 | History Matters, Main
Sept. 1, 1939 marks the beginning of World War II in Europe. That was 80 years ago today. I sit in one of the dives On Fifty-second Street Uncertain and afraid As the clever hopes expire Of a low dishonest decade: September 1, 1939 on History Matters The right...
