As children, most of us learned a very simple narrative of the Civil Rights Movement.
February, 2015
Colonel Lewis Millett and the Changing Nature of War
Since the Medal of Honor’s creation during the Civil War, many awardees have become household names and gone on to notable careers at least partially enabled by their status as Medal recipients.
From Puritan to Patriot: John Adams and William Billings’ “Chester”
The 2008 HBO miniseries John Adams opens in 1770 with Adams’ defense of the British soldiers involved in the Boston Massacre: although he does not wholly approve of the actions of the British government in Massachusetts, he is cautious regarding revolutionary rhetoric.
Martin Luther King and the Compassionate Revolution
Fifty years ago, the Civil Rights Movement forced Americans to have serious and difficult conversations about race.