Showing posts with label Civil War. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Civil War. Show all posts
Saturday, February 11, 2023

Booth and the Our American Cousin we want to forget

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BOOTH That family name is infamous. John Wilkes Booth, the assassin of Abraham Lincoln. It is one of the most dastardly deeds in U.S. histor...
Wednesday, May 24, 2017

Read it all -- you might be a winner on Jeopardy

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The history teacher from Texas won the $100,000 Teachers' Challenge on Jeopardy last week. He clinched the championship because he knew ...
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Saturday, July 27, 2013

High Plains politics getting more interesting all the time

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If you're bored with regional politics, you're not paying attention. In Wyoming, State Superintendent Cindy Hill has been stripped...
Sunday, November 11, 2012

Stephen Vincent Benet's "John Brown's Body" comes to the Wyoming stage

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Nobody, with the possible exception of English majors and classics' scholars, reads epic poetry anymore. The Iliad . The Odyssey . Le...
Saturday, May 12, 2012

Mother's Day has roots in early peace movement

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From Nation of Change:    Mother’s Day began in America in 1870 when Julia Ward Howe wrote the Mother’s Day Proclamation. Written in resp...
Sunday, February 19, 2012

Without the South, we'd have a better country -- but the music and novels would suck

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Denver Post columnist Ed Quillen offers some alternative thoughts about Abe Lincoln’s legacy during this President's Day weekend: W...
Tuesday, April 12, 2011

Tea Party Slim is not so civil about The Civil War

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Tea Party Slim and I were on the back porch discussing the American Civil War. We would have been on the front porch but the Wyoming wes...