“The history of our race, and each individual’s experience, are sown thick with evidence that a truth is not hard to kill and that a lie told well is immortal.” Mark Twain As much as I love history, it’s been…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…