Tag Archive for ‘America’s Hidden History’
Highlights in the History of a Christian Nation
In a recent Fox News colloquy, former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin explained America’s religious traditions to Bill O’Reilly. Discussing the National Day of Prayer in May 2010, both underscored their belief that America is a “Christian Nation,” founded upon Judeo-Christian principles and the Ten Commandments. Speaking of the Founders and the nation’s founding documents, Palin [...]
The Founding Immigrants (Revisited)
Scratch the surface of the current immigration debate and beneath the posturing lies a dirty secret. Anti-immigrant sentiment is older than America itself. Born before the nation, this abiding fear of the ”huddled masses” emerged in the early republic and gathered steam into the 19th and 20th centuries, when nativist political parties, exclusionary laws and the Ku Klux Klan swept the land.
More than Dots and Dashes
On this date, April 27 in 1791, Samuel F.B. Morse was born. If you remember your grade-school history –or you were a Boy Scout who learned “Morse Code”– his name is still familiar. He is credited with developing the telegraph. But there is something else about Morse that your schoolbooks probably left out. He wrote vitriolic anti-Catholic and anti-immigrant essays,
Patriots’ Day: It’s Not About the Marathon
As we reach another Patriots’ Day, the day that commemorates the beginning of the American Revolution on April 19, 1775, here’s a little refresher about some of the hidden history of this most important day in American History.
The Day Baseball –and America– Changed
The words “sports hero” get thrown around a lot in America. But today is a day to celebrate a real sports hero, Jackie Robinson.
