The attorneys for the missionaries sought to have this judgement enforced, but could not. General Jackson was President, and would do nothi...

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 ...

There are books that I start over and over again, always returning them to the shelf before getting far. There are many reasons for this beh...

Robert F. Williams, Labor Organizer? Small things catch me. While reading a history book, I have a tendency to get pulled away on a tangen...

Wits may laugh at our fondness for molasses, and we ought all to join in the laugh with as much good humor as General Lincoln did. General ...

Starting out reading Empires of the Atlantic World: Britain and Spain in America 1492-1830 (2006) by J. H. Elliott, I am immediately impr...

A constant pleasure of history are the little stories that pop out while reading primary sources. Often distracting from the purpose that ...

In January 2011, I posted " Young's Cauldron ." These brief two paragraphs were written in a few minutes during lunch a couple...

My Pacific Northwest history class watched Clearcut: The Story of Philomath, Oregon (2005) last night. This film never fails to generate en...

Beer is proof God loves us and wants us to be happy. Attributed to Benjamin Franklin There are plenty of references to beer in Benjamin...

Patriots and Peoples began with a shopping trip to Borders books. Soon, Borders will be no more. This blog will go on, but how will other ...

[Roland Barthes'] researches into the structure of narrative have granted him a conviction (or a reprieve), a conviction that all telli...

In the opening chapter of A People's History of the United States (1980), Howard Zinn explains his bias. His history examines case st...

While students in my American Indian History course are taking an exam that some find brutal, I spend some time reading my scribblings in an...

History is eloquent in declaring that American democracy was born of Christianity and that Christianity was Calvinism. Loraine Boettner, Th...