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The Reflecting Pool & The Deception Of The Interior Department
Jeanine Pirro dropped vandalism charges against four visitors arrested for vandalizing the now-famous Reflecting Pool in front of the Lincoln Memorial. Much of the media…
White Haven U.S. Grant’s St. Louis Missouri Home
White Haven is the St. Louis home where Ulysses S. Grant lived from 1854 until 1859. After Grant graduated from West Point, he was stationed…
Washington Arch Will Interfere With Nine Civil War Commemoration Sites
The proposed 250-foot-tall triumphal arch proposed by President Trump will interfere with 37 other historic sites in Washington according to an assessment by the National…
Senator Ben Tillman Explains Why the Vote Was Taken Away from African Americans in South Carolina
Benjamin Tillman, better know as “Pitchfork Ben,” was a former Confederate who had risen to prominence as one of the most ruthless partisans of white…
“Historians” David and Tim Barton Helped Set Off the Attack on the Smithsonian
David and Tim Barton are a father and son team of “historians.” David Barton was named an expert content advisor to the Texas State Board…
Civil War Memorial Bainbridge, New York
When you are driving in Upstate New York you will often find Civil War monuments in the smallest of towns. This one is in Bainbridge,…
Monument to the Immigrants Who Died in Long Island Shipwreck
Many of us have swum off Nassau Beach at Nickerson County Park in Long Beach. If you had been there in the second and third…
Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Monument Richfield Springs, N.Y.
Just fourteen miles northwest of Cooperstown, Richfield Springs originally developed around its naturally occurring sulphur water springs. The springs had claims to various health benefits,…
Camp Nelson National Monument Kentucky Where Colored Troops Trained and Their Families Were Expelled
Last month I posted pictures of a whole lot of Civil War and Reconstruction sites from a Confederate cemetery in Columbus, Ohio, to General Grant’s…
Should the Smithsonian Have Warning Signs Put Up Outside Its Museums?
The strange order from the president to post warning signs outside the Smithsonian’s American History museum has been met with abhorrence in many parts of…