The last two days have been eventful and fun. I re-connected with my old Band of Brothers tour mates, Clyde, Phil, Peggy, and Rick, to check out Waikiki. We toured the Army Museum yesterday before meeting other members of our tour group at the orientation reception and dinner. We met our lead historian, Don Farrell, […]
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“Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one’s lifetime.” Mark Twain, The Innocents Abroad When I was in seventh grade in 1977,
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In Honor of Black History Month After last week’s horrific mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, it’s tempting to romanticize the past and imagine that obtaining an education was once not as dangerous of a proposition as it is now. However, the young people who led the charge to desegregate
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I teach a college course called United States History Since 1945. It’s a fun class because the students and I get to reflect on U.S. social, political, economic, and military history of the last seventy odd years. It’s one of those classes where I can show the hilarious episode of I Love Lucy called “Job
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