“The Civil War in Four Minutes” is back on line, lurking away from it’s taken down YouTube presence.

It lives on at VideoSift

The Lincoln Library prevailed on YouTube to remove the library exhibit video, but information, like slaves, wants to be free!

Western Michigan remembers, or forgets to detassel.

He’s Everywhere!  

As the dream of a flood plain-based Long Island Theodore Roosevelt Library remains but a vision, the Peace Garden State is surging ahead.Teddy Roosevelt once shot a buffalo in North Dakota, and they’ve never recovered.

“Theodore Roosevelt was the nation`s 26th president but number one in a lot of North Dakotans` hearts. He has his image forever etched in the side of Mount Rushmore, but lacks one thing that most modern day presidents have: a Presidential Library. Dickinson State University is gearing up to change that.”

Such is the passion for the future president’s passing through the state that North Dakotans have decided to beat Long Island in the race to become the nation’s premier depository of other archives’ Roosevelt documents.

The Long Island effort also promises to be pretty much free of anything original, but KFYR TV reports North Dakota is already creating facsimilies on the ground.  They are part way through the effort to archive other libraries holdings.

The wannabee Wilson “Presidential Library” in Staunton Virginia is keeping Woodrow’s spirit alive with some help from the History Channel, making a film about a local segregated park. The library is presenting it as sort of making amends for the Professor’s errors and omissions. The local paper has a Wilson official referring to him as not “enlightened,” which is one way you could describe introducing segregation to Washington DC and promoting it in federal offices. Doing his part, a young Navy Secretary named Franklin Roosevelt.

The Wilsonians seem of several minds about his actions. Their web site provides a roundup of his crimes, and their defense? Nobody cared about black people!

*Wilson to a black delegation in 1914.

Fantastic Freedom on the march!

From some Bush doners much is expected. To some, often the same ones, much is given.

“I knew nothing about the deal. I need to know exactly how it happened,” said the President. He referred to the announcement that Texas oilman Ray Hunt had been granted an oil concession in Iraqi Kurdistan, the one happy corner of Bush’s New Middle East.

Hunt is not a stranger to Bush, or presidential monumentalism . The New York Times’ Paul Krugman recently pointed to his Bush appointments. Hunt also gave Southern Methodist University $35 million to buy the land for the expected Bush Library. And he grew up in a a mansion designed as a Mount Vernon replica.