Tag Archive for ‘George Washington’
Don’t Know Much About® “Common Sense”
That saying about the pen being mightier than the sword? As the American Revolution haltingly began, an anonymous writer helped prove it true. “Common Sense” appeared on January 10, 1776 and changed the course of history.
Don’t Know Much About® Constitution Day
On September 17, 1787, 39 delegates to the Constitutional Convention meeting in Philadelphia, voted to adopt the United States Constitution. This is Constitution Day.
America’s Founding Fathers: A List of Fascinating Facts
The “Founding Fathers” were real men, not those faces chiseled in stone on Mount Rushmore. Here are some little known but fascinating facts you may not know about some of the men who were present at the birth of the nation –including some whose names you may not know!
Don’t Know Much About History… Still!
The latest in the perennial drumbeat of bad news about failing American History grades in American schools has just been released. And it is as bad as ever. So the first simple question is:Why Are we so Bad at History?
Don’t Know Much About® Thomas Jefferson
Among America’s iconic Founding Fathers, is there a more complicated and contradictory figure than Thomas Jefferson? Scientist, humanist, Enlightenment thinker, writer, architect, politician. He was all these things. The confusion over this genius comes from one basic question: How could the man who wrote, “All Men are Created Equal” and “Life, Liberty and the Pursuit [...]
Don’t Know Much About Mr. Madison
Today March 16, 2011, marks the 260th anniversary of the birth of America’s fourth President, James Madison, also known as “The Father of the Constitution.” While small in stature, and sometimes overshadowed by his more famous Virginian predecessors, George Washington and Thomas Jefferson, Madison must be considered one of the greatest of the Founding Fathers for the breadth and influence of his contributions.
It is NOT Presidents Day. Or President’s Day. Or Even Presidents’ Day.
We mistakenly call the third Monday in February Presidents Day. But. Really it is George Washington’s Birthday –federally speaking that is.
A Tradition of Tolerance? Not really.
We’ve been hearing a lot about America’s tradition of religious freedom and tolerance lately. But for centuries, religion has been used as a weapon to discriminate and cudgel “non- believers” and “heathens,” many of whom came to America in search of religious freedom they never found. The battle over faith in the public square started long before the “Ground Zero Mosque.”
Of “Mosques,” Memorials and Burning Convents
In polite society, one supposedly never discusses religion or politics. In America, it seems we can rarely separate the two. The latest fracas over faith in the public square involves the plans for Cordoba House, an Islamic Center, including a “mosque,” to be built two blocks from Ground Zero. Proposed to bridge the differences between [...]
