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The New York State 250th Commission is up and running. I have attended two state-wide meetings in person (in Albany) and some online meetings as well. So I can vouch for its existence. So how is it doing? What is going on? Visit Philadelphia launches national campaign to lure visitors for America’s 250th anniversary (press […]
I am writing this post wearing my “Defend History!” button. The button was distributed by David Blight, Yale University, president of the Organization of American Historians (OAH) at the annual conference last spring. Blight has been quite active and prominent in defending history from the assault by Donald Trump, president of the United States. My […]
The Bible Among Ruins: Sodom, Israelite History and the Hebrew Bible ASOR November 20, 2025 Peter Feinman feinmanp@ihare.org What is the soul of the Western tradition? Argument. Socrates goes around Athens investigating the claims of the supposedly wise and finds that the people who claim to know things don’t. The Lord threatens to destroy Sodom […]
If a picture is worth one thousand words, then a good slogan or branding is for winning an election. Political parties are asked what they stand for, why someone should vote for them, what is their vision for the future. Such branding needs to be short. No one is going to read a 900+ page […]
Ignorance and fanaticism is ever busy and needs feeding. Always it is feeding and gloating for more. Today, it is the public school teachers, tomorrow the private. The next day the preachers and the lecturers, the magazines, the books, the newspapers. After a while, Your Honor, it is the setting of man against man and […]
The Sound of Music on Trump’s attempt to steal the election The Smithsonian is one of the premier educational and cultural institutions in the country and the world. When it is in the news it usually because of a donation it received either in money or an object. It conducts symposia on important cultural and […]
The 21st century is different from the 20th. Last century, the wars were of great magnitude: World War I – we were triumphant in the global war against Germany World War II – we were triumphant in the global wars against German and Japan World War III – we were triumphant in the global Cold […]
Is Rome worth one good man’s life? We believed it once. Make us believe it again. He was a soldier of Rome. Honor him. Senator Gracchus: Who will help me carry him? [Gladiators surround Maximus to carry him out of the arena] “Gladiator” is remembered as an epic story of great heroism. Such movies of […]
The Bible is the news today. Perhaps not since the Scopes trial has it received this much public attention. (The centennial of that trial of the century will be the subject of a future blog.) But what do the Mean AGainst Americans mean when they refer to the Bible? And what do they mean about […]
The two disasters are separated by 99 years. One, a post-rainfall avalanche that resulted in the death of 9 godly people in Franconia Notch in the White Mountains of New Hampshire. The second a post-rainfall flood that resulted in a still increasing number of people in Flash Flood Alley in the Texas Hill country including […]
by Peter Feinman
by Peter Feinman
by Peter Feinman
