Category Archives: History
Picturing the Past -A Century Old Photo and The Stories It tells.
In 1926, while flaming youth roared and thousands mourned the death of Rudolph Valentino, my grandparents, Sadie and Arthur Joseph, were overjoyed at the birth of their second daughter, Betty Francine, my mother. Always a joyous Bastille Day Birthday, this
Picturing the Past -A Century Old Photo and The Stories It tells.
In 1926, while flaming youth roared and thousands mourned the death of Rudolph Valentino, my grandparents, Sadie and Arthur Joseph, were overjoyed at the birth of their second daughter, Betty Francine, my mother. Always a joyous Bastille Day Birthday, this
Watch- “I Am An American”
What happens when the country you pledged allegiance to is no longer the country you recognize? A worn third-grade civics book becomes the lens through which I examine America’s broken promises. Beginning with the patriotic lessons of my 1963 classroom,
Watch- “I Am An American”
What happens when the country you pledged allegiance to is no longer the country you recognize? A worn third-grade civics book becomes the lens through which I examine America’s broken promises. Beginning with the patriotic lessons of my 1963 classroom,
The Communists Are Coming, The Communists Are Coming!
“Communism is a mortal threat to American liberty,” a protective president warned a nervous nation during a July 4th speech. The Communists are coming, people. They are living among us. This is no time to duck and cover. Get out
The Communists Are Coming, The Communists Are Coming!
“Communism is a mortal threat to American liberty,” a protective president warned a nervous nation during a July 4th speech. The Communists are coming, people. They are living among us. This is no time to duck and cover. Get out
A July 4th Not Much to Celebrate
Last week with our 250th birthday in mind, I walked through my town of Huntington, Long Island. Settled in 1653, over a century before the Declaration of Independence, it is steeped in American history. Climbing the hill to the old
A July 4th Not Much to Celebrate
Last week with our 250th birthday in mind, I walked through my town of Huntington, Long Island. Settled in 1653, over a century before the Declaration of Independence, it is steeped in American history. Climbing the hill to the old
I Am An American
On a bookshelf in my cluttered office is a small, hardcover book I was given in third grade. The well-worn book nestled in between My Dick Jane and Sally primers is titled I Am an American. This book was brand
I Am An American
On a bookshelf in my cluttered office is a small, hardcover book I was given in third grade. The well-worn book nestled in between My Dick Jane and Sally primers is titled I Am an American. This book was brand
FDR’s Birthday Balls -A Birthday Celebration Worthy of a President
Everything about Trump’s tacky, self-indulgent atrocity billed as a Birthday Celebration was vulgar. The travesty was worse than we imagined. A violent, Vegas-style carousel of greased-up men duking it out Gladiator style on the White House lawn, desecrating sacred ground
FDR’s Birthday Balls -A Birthday Celebration Worthy of a President
Everything about Trump’s tacky, self-indulgent atrocity billed as a Birthday Celebration was vulgar. The travesty was worse than we imagined. A violent, Vegas-style carousel of greased-up men duking it out Gladiator style on the White House lawn, desecrating sacred ground
RIP RFK The Day Hope Died
Robert F. Kennedy represented hope. But on June 6, 1968, a nation was left once more to watch and grieve and wonder after another senseless act of violence robbed us of that hope. The GE alarm clock in my bedroom
RIP RFK The Day Hope Died
Robert F. Kennedy represented hope. But on June 6, 1968, a nation was left once more to watch and grieve and wonder after another senseless act of violence robbed us of that hope. The GE alarm clock in my bedroom
An Off Color Remark – White Like Me
On the same sunny Sunday that thousands of my fellow citizens gathered on the National Mall for a day-long event to “rededicate” America to Christianity, thus leaving millions of non-Christians like me out in the cold, I was told
An Off Color Remark – White Like Me
On the same sunny Sunday that thousands of my fellow citizens gathered on the National Mall for a day-long event to “rededicate” America to Christianity, thus leaving millions of non-Christians like me out in the cold, I was told
This Memorial Day, Don’t Let Them Have Died in Vain
They didn’t give their lives to live in a dictatorship. They didn’t give their lives to a country that would turn against its people, deprive them of resources, finances, and health care. They didn’t give their lives to a country
This Memorial Day, Don’t Let Them Have Died in Vain
They didn’t give their lives to live in a dictatorship. They didn’t give their lives to a country that would turn against its people, deprive them of resources, finances, and health care. They didn’t give their lives to a country
Watch-American Diversity Whitewash
Make America Great Again or Make America White Again? That is the question I ask in my short, but timely video “American Diversity Whitewash” that takes apart the fake image of diversity sold to Americans for decades and how
Watch-American Diversity Whitewash
Make America Great Again or Make America White Again? That is the question I ask in my short, but timely video “American Diversity Whitewash” that takes apart the fake image of diversity sold to Americans for decades and how
Envisioning The American Dream 