by Jim Heath | Jul 5, 2020 | History
The sixth great-grandson of Thomas Jefferson and his slave Sally Hemings has shared an image of himself posing alongside the third president as part of a photo series that he says holds ‘a mirror’ to America. Shannon LaNier was photographed by British...
by Jim Heath | Jul 5, 2020 | 2020, Headlines, History, Trump
Historians have weighed in on Trump’s picks for his new National Garden of American Heroes, branding the Trump’s choices as ‘odd’ and ‘inappropriate’, amid nationwide protests calling for the toppling of Confederate statues. During...
by Jim Heath | Jun 27, 2020 | Entertainment, History, Joe Biden
Patric Verrone isn’t wasting any time. With the election just days away, he’s already crafted a new Joe Biden figurine. If elected, Biden would join the 44 other men who have served as America’s Commander In Chief (don’t count Grover Cleveland...
by Jim Heath | Jun 23, 2020 | Commentary, History
As someone who learned the names of the presidents before the alphabet (absolutely true story) there has been nothing in my life I’ve enjoyed more that studying presidential history. I can still name the presidents in order 1 to 46 pretty fast, acknowledging...
by Jim Heath | Jun 18, 2020 | Headlines, History
No, he didn’t free the slaves. But Donald Trump now claims he made Juneteenth “very famous” by agreeing not to hold a controversial political rally in Tulsa Friday on the day commemorating the end of slavery in America. Trump bragged in a new interview that originally...
by Jim Heath | Jun 3, 2020 | Headlines, History
Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam (D) plans to announce tomorrow that he will remove the statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee from its site on Monument Avenue and put it into storage. The towering statue has become the focal point of demonstrations in Richmond against...
