Tag: history
Part Two: Harvesting kindness
Judith Sutherland continues her story from last week about Adele Crockett and the orchard she was left in 1932 amid the Great Depression.
Though successful, Mexican war brought guilt
Learn more about how the Mexican war started, ended and everything in that happened in between.
Part one: Apples and tough times
Judith Sutherland recalls the way her father explained how farmers struggled during the Great Depression in the United States.
A gutsy mission to save the Lipizzaners
Learn more about the mission to recover the Lipizzaner horses, the jewels of the Spanish Riding School of Vienna, Austria, from the Nazis during WWII.
Best thing to do is not much at all
Alan Guebert reflects on the coronavirus pandemic, the black lives matter movement and similar times during Julys of America's past.
Foolhardy Custer longed for a feat of valor
Learn more about the Battle of the Little Bighorn and Col. George A. Custer.
How the sewing machine transformed society
Learn how the invention of the sewing machine led to the evolution of the American mercantile economy into the age of industrial capitalism.
When Lincoln was thanked by Sojourner Truth
Learn more about the life and work of Sojourner Truth and the time she visited Abraham Lincoln to thank him for issuing the Emancipation Proclamation.
Washington’s clever attack saved The Revolution
Washington decided on a bold stroke of military strategy to win the Battle of Trenton on December 26, 1776.
