AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY Archive
Remembering Woodrow Wilson: Now With Visceralness!
0 Comments Published by mr.president July 23rd, 2008 in PRESIDENTS OF THE UNITED STATES, PRESIDENTIAL MARKETING, AMERICAN HISTORY, AMERICAN PRESIDENTS, PRESIDENTIAL BIRTHPLACE, PRESIDENTIAL HOMES, PRESIDENTIAL HISTORIAN, UNITED STATES HISTORY, WHITE HOUSE HISTORY, US PRESIDENTS, PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY, PRESIDENTIAL HISTORY, WOODROW WILSON, PRESIDENTIAL SITES, AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY, HISTORY IN THE NEWS, POLITICAL HUMORLittle Professor
Presidential Memorializing continues spinning backwards in time, with the Woodrow Wilson Presidential Library the latest fatuous exercise.
Wilson was born in Staunton Virginia, but his parents left town when he was four. From these slender roots the town has metastasized a Presidential Library, now to receive federal funding.
The Library represents double […]
Lincoln & Loathing
0 Comments Published by mr.president July 16th, 2008 in PRESIDENTIAL MARKETING, AMERICAN HISTORY, AMERICAN PRESIDENTS, PRESIDENTS ABROAD, PRESIDENTIAL HISTORIAN, UNITED STATES HISTORY, WHITE HOUSE HISTORY, ABRAHAM LINCOLN, US PRESIDENTS, HISTORY IN THE NEWS, AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY, PRESIDENTIAL HISTORYInvisible Men
Thanks to civilwarmemory for pointing to a recent post by John David Hoptak, a writer and Park Ranger at the Antietam National Battlefield.
Hoptak’s Antietam presentations on the battle and the contemporaneous drafting of the Emancipation Proclamation have stirred a vicious reaction from many Park visitors, […]
From the Land of Myth
0 Comments Published by mr.president July 10th, 2008 in PRESIDENTS OF THE UNITED STATES, PRESIDENTIAL MARKETING, AMERICAN HISTORY, AMERICAN PRESIDENTS, PRESIDENTIAL BIRTHPLACE, PRESIDENTIAL HOMES, PRESIDENTIAL HISTORIAN, UNITED STATES HISTORY, WHITE HOUSE HISTORY, PRESIDENTIAL HISTORY, POLITICAL HUMOR, US PRESIDENTS, PRESIDENTIAL SITES, AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY, HISTORY IN THE NEWS, GEORGE WASHINGTONBoyhood Home Revealed!
Excitement reins at Ferry Farm, scene of George Washington cannoting to tell a lie and other legends. An archaeological dig has revealed the foundations of what is thought to be his childhood home.
The Ferry Farm drawing bares a remarkable resemblance to the house built near Washington’s birthplace in […]
Making The Eagle Scream
0 Comments Published by mr.president June 24th, 2008 in PRESIDENTIAL WANNABEES, PRESIDENTIAL MARKETING, AMERICAN HISTORY, PRESIDENTS OF THE UNITED STATES, AMERICAN PRESIDENTS, PRESIDENTIAL HISTORIAN, BARAK OBAMA, UNITED STATES HISTORY, WHITE HOUSE HISTORY, PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY, RONALD REAGAN, PRESIDENTIAL HISTORY, US PRESIDENTS, PRESIDENTISH, AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY, HISTORY IN THE NEWS, POLITICAL HUMORSigned, Sealed & Disappeared
Barak Obama’s campaign has yanked the cheesy presidentish seal that has been called mocking, outrageous, and possibly illegal by somewhat fevered observers.
The real crime of course is burdening the eagle with the existing Obama graphic - it still looks […]
Rebel Sell
1 Comment Published by mr.president June 3rd, 2008 in PRESIDENTIAL MARKETING, AMERICAN HISTORY, PRESIDENTIAL WANNABEES, PRESIDENTIAL HISTORIAN, JEFFERSON DAVIS, PRESIDENTIAL HOMES, UNITED STATES HISTORY, AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY, PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY, PRESIDENTIAL HISTORY, US PRESIDENTS, NEVER WERE'S, HISTORY IN THE NEWS, PRESIDENTIAL SITES, POLITICAL HUMORThat’s The Way God Planned It
Tuesday is your day, Donald Trump and other fans of slavery nostalgia!
It’s the gala reopening of Beauvoir, home of Confederate President Jefferson Davis, largely destroyed by politically correct Hurricane Katrina. The accompanying “Presidential Library” was wiped out completely by the avenging wind.
Terrible Swift Sword […]