Tag: Abraham Lincoln
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A National Divorce?
Over the last few months I have been reading a book written by Brian Kilmeade. “The President and the Freedom Fighter: Abraham Lincoln, Frederick Douglass, and their battle to Save America’s Soul.” Just a couple of weeks ago I read the pages detailing John Brown and the unfortunate circumstances of the Federal Arsenal that would…
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Leisure Reading with Lincoln and Douglass
My ideas for articles today have had to be reset. What started as a day at home ended up being an afternoon at Terre Haute. My brain isn’t really working this evening, but earlier I got to spend some time actually reading. Reading for leisure, has not been much of a priority lately. So it…
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Focusing on 1776
The timing is really amazing when you look at history. How and when certain things happened. July 4th 1776 did not just happen on that one day. A myriad of events happened over the spread of at least a decade to bring about the amazing event of the 4th of July we now celebrate. This…




