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Once upon a time, the United States was a can-do country. In 2025, we are celebrating the bicentennial of the completion of the Erie Canal begun in 1817 in Rome, New York. The Marquis de Lafayette in his return trip to the United States in 1824-1825 actually traveled portions of the Erie Canal in June […]
The Trump Muskacre will become a distinct period in American history. True it continues to unfold so determining the true cost of the purported cost-savings project will take time. But it appears that its days are waning although its affects will be ongoing. Ostensibly it is commissioned to detect cost savings, inefficiencies and waste in […]
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. […]
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 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 Melting Pot is a play by Israel Zangwill, first staged in 1908. The actual story line as well as the author have been lost to history save for those who have a deep interest in the subject. The term “melting pot” went on to have national significance in the American culture. Lately it has […]
This post in the first in a series of posts analyzing the results of the 2024 Presidential Election. I am starting with something that as of November 8, 2024, does not appear to have happened. To the best of knowledge there is no civil war at this time. In fact the country seems remarkably peaceful […]
by Peter Feinman
by Peter Feinman
by Peter Feinman
