Category: History

The Future is Next Thursday

by mexican sharpshooter | May 21, 2022 | Beer, Food & Drink, History, Musings | 93

Get a load of these assholes

Whither Vermont? Politics: Economics is everything

by Richard | Apr 26, 2022 | History, Politics | 243

The Vermont State treasury

Water Wars — Abandon Hope

by mexican sharpshooter | Apr 16, 2022 | Beer, Big Government, Economy, Environment, Food & Drink, History, Not So Easy Pieces | 131

Part One

Profiles in Toxic Masculinity XVI – Frederick Douglass Part II

by ron73440 | Mar 28, 2022 | Education, History | 95

Part 2, from slavery to freedom.

Profiles in Toxic Masculinity XVI – Frederick Douglass Part 1

by ron73440 | Mar 21, 2022 | Education, History | 126

He made a point to never smile in pictures, because he didn’t want to perpetuate the “happy slave” stereotype.

Naming the Fleet 2

by LCDR_Fish | Mar 3, 2022 | History, In Memoriam, Military, National Security | 254

Only one ship to discuss this time. But what a namesake!

Jewsday Tuesday: A Little Thing

by Old Man With Candy | Feb 15, 2022 | History, Jews | 132

I promise that my penis is mentioned nowhere in this article. It’s about Purim, I pinky swear.

Naming the Fleet

by LCDR_Fish | Feb 3, 2022 | History, In Memoriam, Military, National Security | 204

What’s in a name?

Summer Vacation Follow-Up: Christmas on the Coast

by Shpip | Feb 2, 2022 | History, I Am Lame, Outdoors, Travel | 176

Whereupon your humble author and The Bosslady make a return to the Golden Isles of Georgia.

K-T

by Yusef drives a Kia | Jan 31, 2022 | Fiction, History | 114

“Long ago, things were different”

Too Local: Pizza Party

by CPRM | Jan 21, 2022 | Food & Drink, History | 288

Pizza Parties Are The Best! Did you finish your Book It!?

Summer Vacation, Part I: The Outer Banks

by Shpip | Jan 19, 2022 | History, I Am Lame, Travel | 193

In which we follow Shpip and The Bosslady through a couple of weeks of getting sand and salt spray in… everything.

Too Local: FWD Seagrave

by CPRM | Jan 13, 2022 | History, Society, Technology, Travel | 264

What history lurks in the small towns of America? How about a major innovation in automotive history?

One Little Town, Two Big Christmas Songs

by Shpip | Dec 29, 2021 | Florida, History, Music, Travel | 208

Ocala, Florida wasn’t known for much back in the 1950s. No real natural resources if you don’t count the National Forest east of town, and while Silver Springs drew in some intrepid tourists back around the turn of the century, the attraction and its glass-bottomed boats weren’t exactly making the town a vacation destination.

A Question of Integrity

by Fourscore | Dec 21, 2021 | Foreign Policy, History, Military | 179

A long, long time ago, fifty years to be exact, I was invited to visit Viet Nam for the second time.

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