Showing posts with label American history. Show all posts
Showing posts with label American history. Show all posts
Friday, November 23, 2018

Guest Post: Why the Pilgrims were actually able to survive

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Peter C. Mancall , University of Southern California – Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences Sometime in the autumn of 1621, a g...
Thursday, November 22, 2018

Guest Post: How advertising shaped Thanksgiving as we know it

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Samantha N. N. Cross , Iowa State University I have always been intrigued by Thanksgiving – the traditions, the meal, the idea of a holida...
Wednesday, November 21, 2018

Guest Post: The Lesser Known History of Thanksgiving in America

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For a time, peace and plenty resulted not in a grateful America but in a complacent one. by James R. Harrigan On October 3, 1789, Georg...
Monday, November 19, 2018

Guest Post: How Communism Almost Ruined The First Thanksgiving

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The Plymouth Pilgrims progressed from the false dream of communism to the sound realism of capitalism. by Richard M. Ebeling This time o...
Saturday, May 05, 2018

Rundown of Recent Podcasts on 'The Score'

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As announced here on March 17, I have become host and producer of The Score, a podcast on Bearing Drift , Virginia's leading politica...
Thursday, November 30, 2017

Guest Post: Casablanca at 75 – still a classic of WWII propaganda

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Stephen McVeigh , Swansea University Casablanca , which brought together the combined star-power of Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman, re...
Monday, November 20, 2017

Guest Post: What the first Thanksgiving dinner actually looked like

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Julie Lesnik , Wayne State University Most Americans probably don’t realize that we have a very limited understanding of the first Thanksg...
Thursday, December 29, 2016

Guest Post: How the American Civil War cemented modern Christmas traditions

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by David Anderson , Swansea University Shortly before Christmas Day 1864, Abraham Lincoln received an extraordinary Christmas present – ...