Recently, I became cognizant that every post on Patriots and Peoples the past three years has been about guns in one way or another. There ...

Paul Rosenberg offers an assessment of President Reagan's legacy far more realistic than the one driving Tea Partiers and even President...

George Chalich was a high school teacher who inundated the junior class with factoids. I loved the factoids he gave us, but hated the slow p...

It’s so important for Americans to learn about our past so we can clearly see our way forward in challenging times; so, we’re bringing att...

Paul Revere's letter to Jeremy Belknap (1798) offers his own account of an event that has been much memorialized, mythologized, and misu...

During an argument on Facebook concerning observations of racism in the Tea Party movement, a putative historian opined: Maybe you got you...

I have written several posts on this blog concerning the historical impact of disease. Many diseases continue to ravage modern populations. ...

President Obama wants to address the nation. He wants his address broadcast in school classrooms. The Associated Press: " Obama speech ...

I rarely agree with my Representative in Congress. We do not share the same political commitments, nor the same priorities. Even so, she is ...

Just a quick note to observe that Larry Schweikart has a blog: A Patriot's History of the United States . His blog states that it is ...

A third place must be within walking distance from home, a place where one feels valued as more than a faceless consumer, where socializing,...

Wait--You think people actually read the archives of blogs? I think most readers think of a blog as being only as good as its most recent po...

What passes for thinking today is the old process of relating the unknown and unexpected to familiar categories of explanation which have be...

The long view of history highlights some compression towards the present.

... a nation cannot prosper long when it favors only the prosperous. The success of our economy has always depended not just on the size of ...

A new study has located an unexpected source of opposition to President-Elect Obama's plans to extend health care to the more than nine ...

We do. Moreover, we plan to read more in 2009 than we did in 2008. I noted in " Twilight of the Books " last January that my wife ...

In the spring I will be offering a new class for the students at Deer Park Home Link. This post augments information in the course descripti...

I found my own blog this morning through an unusual route. That is, I found another blog based upon Patriots and Peoples , but without my in...

Was Richard Nixon a chess player? That's one of many insignificant questions that will join the significant inquiries as I read through ...