Give me liberty! And two book reviews damn it! Yes, I’m reviewing (more) textbooks. Why American History? Well, my instructor asked me the same question, and here was my answer to him: Why History? Because it’s everywhere. It’s in the events that lead to a new technology, it’s in old pictures I see of myself, as I laugh at the fashion trend of the time. It’s in the changes in popular culture, or in our search to understand why something happened the way it did. […]
An unintended theme
I trust that these two figures, Martin Luther King Jr and Malcolm X, require no introduction. Without qualification, they are two of the most important American figures of the 20th century. Contemporaries, they often took up oppositional positions, though they were fighting for the same cause: the right of black Americans to claim the equality they were rightfully owed. Both men gave their lives to the struggle, and have gone on to represent a great many things to a great number of people. Death of […]
Reflections in a Carnival Mirror
“This combination of raw suffering in the workers’ tenements and indifference in the mansions of the ruling elite created a fertile breeding ground for a class of social radical who came to see the dynamite stick and the pistol as the only way to break the cycle of servitude.” – Scott Miller
The Kind of Stuff They Don’t Teach You About At Church
“A Mormon has a right to believe what he will. His thoughts may be as free as the unconfined air, and his conscience should by no means be restrained by legal enactments. But his acts are quite a different thing.” -Raleigh News and Observer, July 20, 1881