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.”...
by drkeithcox | Nov 10, 2020 | History Matters, Main
A message lost by a carrier pigeon has been found some 110 years after it was sent. Carrier pigeon message found 110 years after it was sent A message lost by a carrier pigeon during military exercises has been found in France some 110 years after it was...
by drkeithcox | Nov 8, 2020 | History Matters, Main
The United States in 1861 was even more divided than we are today. Abraham Lincoln, running on the Republican platform of no expansion of slavery, won the presidency without one Southern vote (he was not on the ballot in Southern States). Before his inauguration,...
by drkeithcox | Nov 4, 2020 | History Matters, Main
On Wednesday afternoon, November 9, 1960, Nixon officially conceded the election to Kennedy. He told his friend, journalist Earl Mazo, that “our country cannot afford the agony of a constitutional crisis.”
