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The White House Ship of State (The Sequel)
The White House ship of state is not the Love Boat. Is it the Titanic? Perhaps a better metaphor than something crashing into an iceberg would be the meltdown of the ship where the motto is “ABANDON SHIP! ABANDON SHIP!” Let’s examine the different components of the ship of state and determine what if any […]
Let the Students Speak: Bring Back Convention II, a High School Civics Program
Shortly after the Bicentennial, Bob Feinman, my father, created Convention II. It was a mock constitutional convention run by and for high school students. It was not about laws but about amendments. The students would propose, debate, and sometimes even ratify changes to the Constitution. The 2/3 vote requirement for passage made it difficult but […]
St. Valentine’s Day Massacre to the Titanic: The White House Ship of State (Part I)
When the President of the United States learned of Japan’s attack on America on December 7 did he exult or strike back? When the President of the United States learned of Al Qaeda’s attack on America on 9/11 did he exult or strike back? When the President of the United States learned in 2018 of […]
Twelve Years a Slave – What about the Other Years?
Solomon Northup, born 1808, died around 1863, was a slave for 12 years from 1841 to 1853. What about the rest of his life? What about his life as a free person for the first 32/3 years of his life? What about his life for the last ten or so years of life? In the […]
Undoing the Whitewashing of Black History in New York
In this post, I continue an issue I first wrote about on June 16, 2016, Forgetting July 4, 1827. The post addressed some of the ways the first two centuries of black history in New York from slavery to emancipation had been forgotten or downplayed over the years. The post included some examples of people, […]
Signs of the Times: The $14 Million I Love NY Signs
The I Love NY Interstate Highway signs are back in the news and for all the wrong reasons. I first reported on the construction of these illegal signs back on December 5, 2016 in the post Signs of the Times: Follow the Money and Not the Cuomo versus Federal Government Showdown The subject were the […]
“Stupid Is What Stupid Does”: The Donald Awards
In this time of awards and medals, it is only appropriate to name the nominees for the first Donald. In 2013, Louisiana Republican Governor Bobby Jindal warned the GOP to “stop being the stupid party.” Jindal said Republican candidates should “stop insulting the intelligence of voters… with offensive and bizarre statements.” However, Jindal didn’t listen […]
Jerusalem Throne Games Public Lecture
Create the New York Association for State and Local History (NYASLH)
The time has come to create the New York Association for State and Local History (NYASLH). There is a void, an absence of leadership in the state history community. There is no one to speak on behalf of the community at the statewide level. Many people work quite hard and often for no money on […]
