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The America 250th is alive and well. For so long the celebration has been in the doldrums. With that funny hard to pronounce name – semiquincentennial – the 250th has had a tough time competing with the Bicentennial. The 250th was a pale imitation of what had transpired a mere 50 years ago. The national […]
The history community no longer has the option of ignoring the political arena. As much as people would like to be left alone to mount their exhibits, catalog their artifacts, and conduct class trips, those activities are from the days of innocence. Practically every other day I receive a notice from the American Historical Association. […]
Recently the subject of history literacy was raised. I don’t recall the exact circumstances or by whom. Every day I delayed in posting this blog, it seems as if another moment in history had occurred. Thinking about these historic times was the impetus for a need to organize my thoughts and not approach everything piecemeal. […]
Move over Gilgamesh and Enkidu. Stand aside Hector and Achilles. The biblical O.K. Corral is back. The ultimate showdown at high noon has returned to the small screen. The “House of David” has premiered on Amazon Prime Video. It is part of the original faith-based programming that made “The Chosen” about the life of Jesus […]
Sometimes ad hoc is sufficient; sometimes it is not. Fighting fires always has been more than a one-person task. It has been a community task where all the able adults from far and wide came to pitch in to quench the raging inferno of a farm or home of a friend and neighbor. Eventually more […]
From out of nowhere our President has wreaked havoc in the Middle East with his suggestion to create a Riviera on the Mediterranean without the people who live there now. This suggestion from Earth 2 is so off-the-wall he neglected to even to mention it to anyone before springing it upon an unsuspecting world. At […]
On March 15, 2016, State Senator George Latimer wrote this comment about my blog: Brilliant, Peter George Peter – On February 11, 2025, now Congressman, George Latimer, sent me this email along with the original post from March 12, 2016. Even more relevant today than when you wrote this nine years ago. George I was […]
On Mar 15, 2016, at 4:22 PM, State Senator George Latimer wrote this comment in response to this blog: Brilliant, Peter George On February 11, 2025, now Congressman, George Latimer, sent me this email along with the post from March 12, 2016. Even more relevant today than when you wrote this nine years ago. George […]
The annual conference January 3-6, 2025, in New York City, of the American Historical Association exposed the two wings of the organization: the Hamas wing and the Hamilton Wing. The exposure occurred Sunday evening, January 5. So far the event has been covered by two articles in The New York Times. “Historians’ Group Votes to […]
This blog is the third and final update on the semiquincentennial. The first looked at the national and New England regional landscape. The second surveyed the individual New England states. This final blog turns to New York State and City where the news is not good. Remember this blog excludes what is happening at the […]
by Peter Feinman
by Peter Feinman
by Peter Feinman
