On the 19th of April in 1775, on the Village Green in Lexington, Massachusetts, John Brown, Samuel Hadley, Caleb Harrington, Jonathon Harrington, Robert Munroe, Isaac Muzzey, Asahel Porter and Jonas Parker became the first Americans to give Read more »
- April 19, 2009 -
Patriots’ Day, 2009
“Listen my children and you shall hear Of the midnight ride of Paul Revere” As the sun was rising on the morning of April 19, 1775, 700 British soldiers met up with 77 Massachusetts minutemen on the Read more »
- January 19, 2009 -
Martin Luther King Day, 2009
“To every thing there is a season.” Ecclesiastes We are in the season of war. American men and women are fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan. We have enemies in a nuclear North Korea and perhaps soon-to-be nuclear Read more »
- December 25, 2008 -
Holiday Season, 2008
Peace on Earth. Good will towards all. Nice words— Peace on Earth. Good will towards all. It makes us feel good when we say them, as if they were magical incantations through which we could transform the Read more »
- November 27, 2008 -
Thanksgiving, 2008
Deep in my heart, I do believe, That we shall overcome some day We Shall Overcome Anthem of the American Civil Rights Movement I wrote my first essay on freedom 7 years ago, on Read more »
- September 17, 2008 -
Constitution Day, 2008
I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will faithfully execute the office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States. Read more »
- July 4, 2008 -
Independence Day, 2008
We live, my dear soul, in an age of trial. What will be the consequence, I know not. John Adams to Abigail Adams, 1774 It was a cold winter day in January, 1776 when John Adams left Read more »
- May 26, 2008 -
Memorial Day, 2008
To everything There is a season And a time for every purpose under heaven Memorial Day is the season of our mourning. It is the time for us, the living, to remember those, the dead. It is Read more »
- April 22, 2008 -
Earth Day, 2008
Problems cannot be solved by the same level of thinking that created them Albert Einstein On that first Earth Day, 38 years ago, I was a graduate student at The University of Michigan. Six years earlier Rachel Read more »
- January 21, 2008 -
Martin Luther King Day, 2008
“The moral arc of the universe is long but it bends toward justice!” Martin Luther King, Jr. Sixty years ago, in 1948, Southern Democrats, led by South Carolina Governor Strom Thurmond, broke from the Democratic Party because Read more »