Today is Presidents Day, and presidents have been much in the news lately. Yes, they’re always in the news, but especially this year. We have
Tag: Theodore Roosevelt
Free, color-blind and ’21
It’s finally over. The year 2020 will forever be remembered–at least by today’s adults–as one of the worst in American history. Whether historians will put
Heading down the slope.
Today is April 15, and the month is halfway done as of midnight tonight. At 12:01am tomorrow, we start the downslope toward May. But not
In Search of the Old Red Gods.
As a young boy, I grew up in a series of towns in southern Wisconsin, ranging from two different suburbs in the Milwaukee metro area,
Riding rough through history.
I’ve been a history buff since I was a kid. I always thought that to be considered a “historian,” I would have to do this professionally, which is to
The challenge of Memorial Day.
This past Monday was Memorial Day across our land. In our community of Rice Lake, up in northwest Wisconsin, we have a tradition of
A Strenuous Writer's Life 