The link to this was posted at Mythsoc, and watching it brought a big smile to my face:


Watch Appraisal: 1937 Signed, First Edition on PBS. See more from Antiques Roadshow.

...written by the always readable Christopher Hitchins.

A little historical perspective is always a good thing.

I'm thankful neither my sons nor I have to deal with this:

PC ThanksgivingBoth the old and the new ways of teaching the history of Thanksgiving are flawed, and overly simplistic - and not at all "realistic" as one quoted teachers seems to think. Even the history professor whom the article quotes leaves out the pertinent fact that when the settlers ( Read more... )

September 16, 1620: the Mayflower departs England, bound for Virginia with 102 passengers aboard - several of whom are counted among my ancestors.

In between bouts of writing (and work) I've been reading Nathaniel Philbrick's Mayflower, a copy of which I also sent to my parents. Dad wrote that Mom started reading it right away, and took it with ( Read more... )

Eighty years ago today that marvelous invention that would come to be the labled by some as the boob tube made its debut:BAIRD DEMONSTRATES TV:
January 27, 1926

On January 27, 1926, John Logie Baird, a Scottish inventor, gives the first public demonstration of a true television system in London,...
*for the rest of the story see This Day in History ( Read more... )