Month: January 2009

Most of us remember our parents, our grandparents through the halcyon lenses of their own fictions. “Back in our day…” Really, we know it wasn’t all Wally and the Beav, yet we somehow long for that small...

As a follow up to Booman’s post from yesterday late morning, this is what I have been feeling, hearing, reading…. ***************************** Just reading and hearing and seeing the change in people’s overall...

[Crossposted from my Real History Blog.] I had the most amazing and wonderful experience in DC for the inauguration. This journey started last February when I flew to Wisconsin at the last minute to see Barack Obama speak on the...

As a lay historian, I could not be more pleased with President Obama’s decision to use his first executive orders to restore teeth to the Freedom of Information Act and insist that the government err on the side of...