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Modern History Monday: The Appomattox Courthouse (1865)
April 9th, 1865 marks the end of the worst conflict ever seen on American soil. 147 years ago Robert E. Lee surrendered to Ulysses S. Grant at the Appomattox Courthouse. Lee surrendered his Army of North Virginia after the final battle of the war, where Lee came up predictably short. The battle, which took place … Continue reading
Modern History Monday: Robert Frost
March 26th marks a great anniversary in American prose that holds significant weight; the birth of Robert Frost in 1874. This poet stands at the center of the American literary canon. Toying with the political, the aesthetic, the secular and the spiritual in a way that only the influence of the American past could bring … Continue reading
Modern History Monday: Jim Bakker Resigns in Shame (1987)
I’ll just come right out and say it: preachers shouldn’t have television shows! You know, maybe some could handle it but since the advent of television, televangelists made fools out of themselves and the Christian religion time and time again. And the most famous of those was Jim Bakker. On this day 25 years ago, … Continue reading
Modern History Monday : Jack Kerouac’s Birthday
Alright, so you might be wondering why I am writing Modern History Monday on a Tuesday. Well, in all honesty, yesterday was much too busy to crank out even a brief historical synopsis, but ‘Modern History Tuesday’ just doesn’t have the same ring to it. Anyhow, this last Monday (March 12th) marks the 90th birthday … Continue reading
Modern History Monday: Korda Shoots Che Guevara
By March 5th, 1960, the Cuban Revolution was well underway when a Belgian military transport exploded in the Harbor of Havana, Cuba. A host died and the great Marxist revolutionary Fidel Castro spoke later that day at an impromptu memorial service for departed, when, as the story goes, Che Guevara poked his head out for … Continue reading
Modern History Monday: The Reichstag Fire (1933)
On today’s date, 79 years ago in Berlin one of Hitler’s first and most wickedly cunning ploys to gain complete control of Germany took place. The Reichstag fire was the first of many sly Nazi trickeries that led to the most evil dictatorship in, arguably, the history of the world. So while it was not … Continue reading
