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Un-American: As Reported by the Press in the Early 20th Century America.

  • February 21, 2016
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In the early decades of the 20th Century the term ‘un-American’ was widely used to disparage those whose thinking deviated from mainstream America. The dark days of the Civil War were a distant memory, and the recent industrialization created cities...

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Grave Robbers and Dissection Labs: The Nightmares of 19th Century America.

  • January 26, 2016
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Fearful of grave robbers, some families installed steel fences around the family graves. We have all identified with “things that go bump in the night.” Generations of Americans have shared similar nightmares, mostly about fictional creatures, ghouls and monsters. Our...

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Early Radio Reflected Both the Good and Bad of America.

  • January 13, 2016
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The birth of radio broadcasting (Christmas Eve 1906) ran parallel with many other innovations – electric lights, running water, automobiles, telephones, refrigerators, and more. The difference, however, was that radio had the power to influence and shape attitudes, and it...

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The Public Was Slow To Accept Electric Lights in Ships.

  • November 19, 2015
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Unless you are a maritime scholar, the average person probably hasn’t thought much about the array of lights needed for a ship. The most common of these lights are the masthead, navigational, signal and deck lights. Depending on the size...

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Slavery was supported by white southern pastors.

  • November 17, 2015
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Sometimes there was silence from the pulpit. Those pastors played it safe and ignored the elephant in the room. Others put a Biblical spin on the subject, and the congregation went away feeling that enslaving another race was “good and...

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Chicago 1900: Pickled hands and much worse

  • September 6, 2015
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“In the beginning he had been fresh and strong, and he had gotten a job that first day, but now he was second-hand, a damaged article, so to speak, and they did not want him. They had worn him out,...

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Civil War Surgeons: Understanding their incompetence.

  • August 18, 2015
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There were many surprises in the Civil War. The biggest surprise of all was just how incomprehensibly unprepared they were for the deadly battle results. By the age of 15, most young men are enjoying life: sports, girls, cars, or...

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The Civil War was the perfect storm.

  • August 16, 2015
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When Mark Twain said, “Don’t let schooling interfere with your education,” he might have been thinking about the American medical system in the 19th century. It was called primitive, even medieval. In 1861, at the outbreak of the Civil War...

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D-Day: Teddy Roosevelt would have been proud of his son.

  • August 16, 2015
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Theodore Roosevelt Jr shortly after D-Day, and only days before his death. Teddy Roosevelt,our 26th President, would have described D-Day as the single most important day in modern history. Teddy Roosevelt would have wanted to be in the D-Day fight....

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Woodrow Wilson Suported The Science of Eugenics.

  • August 15, 2015
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  Perhaps the deeply religious Woodrow Wilson missed the Bible lesson (Genesis: 1:27) that said,”So God created man in His own image, in the image of God.” Wilson, like Adolph Hitler and others, whole-heartedly believed in the science of eugenics....

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