Tag: slavery

• Writing Prompt:

  What historical event fascinates you the most? There are too many for me to only mention or simply pick just one event. Although right now I am currently reading a book about the Civil War. More specifically about President Abraham Lincoln and the illustrious Frederick Douglass. I’m more than halfway through the book as of…

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  October 31, 2025

  Writing Prompt

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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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  September 16, 2025

  American Heritage, Bible Reflections, Extraordinary People With Common Sense, Uncategorized

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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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  September 2, 2025

  American Heritage

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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…

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  August 21, 2024

  American Heritage, Bible Reflections, Extraordinary People With Common Sense

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• Proclamations

  The Emancipation Proclamation, is the most well known, I believe, of proclamations. This was important for Lincoln to do so although many believed it did nothing to actually save the slaves of America. It was simply a parchment paper with words. Yet look at the staggering numbers that say otherwise. I have been to the…

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  April 1, 2024

  American Heritage, Are These American Ideals Gone?, Bible Reflections, Extraordinary People With Common Sense, Family, God’s Timing, Modern American History

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• 17 Centuries In Between

  With this 118th Congress; the Republicans are now in charge of the House. Investigations have been taking place for months now on important and imperative issues to tackle. The question is what will these committees give us as far as results for the American People! Our Founding Fathers stole from the best when creating our…

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  May 5, 2023

  World History

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