Really cool little event on the National Mall April 14-20: The Historic Vehicle Association (HVA), which is dedicated to creating National Historic Landmark status for significant transportation vehicles, selected the first White House automobile, a 1909 White Steamer, which was used by President William Howard Taft, for it’s induction into the Historic Vehicles register. The …
Try this one: http://m.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2013/07/what-if-you-had-to-earn-american-citizenship/309398/ I’ll tell you later what I got. Btw, I went to the 150th anniversary celebration at Gettysburg last month, and they ran a citizenship swearing-in ceremony at the end of the event. Very cool and so moving. Justice Scalia presided. The citizenship oath is very serious, and it is still tied to …
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Two things: 1) Added “links” to the top pages, starting with a link that might be a useful place for opposition research for your debate research, ProCon.org. 2) Tornado mentioned in class that he took a personal politics test and it returned that he is a libertarian. Here’s the test: theadvocates.org If you want to …
Alex forwards the following fascinating look at cartographic depictions of the 2012 electoral college results in populations and local districts by partisan votes: http://www-personal.umich.edu/~mejn/election/2012/ Very cool, except the last map has purple, which I can’t see. – Bromley
Thomas Jefferson’s observations on the institution of slavery, 1781: “And can the liberties of a nation be thought secure when we have removed their only firm basis, a conviction in the minds of the people that these liberties are of the gift of God That they are not to be violated but with his wrath? …
The NY Times is running today a rather beautiful slideshow presentation of what happened to some of the signers of the Declaration during and after the war. The Cost of Revolution Bad things didn’t happen to all the signers, of course, most of whom lived to see the fruit of their invention. But a good …