By Heather Cox Richardson One hundred and sixty years ago, on December 26, 1862, in the largest mass execution in American history, the U.S. government hanged 38 Santee men for their actions in Minnesota’s so-called Dakota War. The struggle did not involve all of the Santees, but rather those driven to war in August 1862 […]
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You’re probably all aware of the controversies over the naming of our football teams and how Native Americans would like us to stop using terms that stereotype their culture. Personally, I find it ironic that we’d name our sports teams after a people we tried to wipe off the face of the earth. Sure, we […]
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The online Oxford Dictionary defines massacre as: An indiscriminate and brutal slaughter of people. Our first massacre occurred on March 5, 1770, on King Street in Boston. It started out as a simple quarrel between two people, turned into a fight between an American colonist and a British soldier, and then quickly escalated into what […]
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This time of year the Peeps jokes start circulating, and it hit me, hey, I write about health and wellness, so perhaps I would write about marshmallows. The marsh mallow (Althaea officinalis) is an herb, a perennial herb of the hibiscus family, native to Europe and northern Africa. And you’ll probably guess where it is […]
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Late Summer 1970 Right after our incursion into Cambodia, we conducted a good number of Hunter-Killer missions along the Cambodian border. A Hunter-Killer mission consists of a scout flying around on the deck (near the ground) looking for trouble, and when he finds it, the Cobra up above that’s been watching over the scout, rolls […]
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Into the wee hours of election night 2016, the most surprised person in America was Donald Trump. He never expected to win that election. There are stories of everyone around him just gasping and Melania breaking down and crying. Who knows if they’re true, especially since “FAKE NEWS” would soon be Trump’s battle cry. Still, […]
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