This Year’s Kennedy Center Honorees Have A ‘Jolly Romp’ At The White House June 4, 2021 A key component of the annual Kennedy Center Honors is having the U.S. president welcome the honorees to the White... Read More
History MattersJune 1 to June 15, 2021 June 1, 2021 Showing our children that their past is prelude to their future Read More
“My Remarkable Journey: A Memoir” May 24, 2021 The onetime “hidden figure” recounts her extraordinary path from the Jim Crow South to the halls of NASA. Read More
The Best of America’s 20th Century Authors May 24, 2021 The Grateful American Foundation Ranks the 10 Best American Authors from the 20th Century Read More
Mary Lincoln wasn’t ‘crazy.’ She was a bereaved mother, new exhibit says. May 1, 2021 by Gillian Brockell for The Washington Post Callie Hawkins had been working at President Lincoln’s Cottage museum for 10 years when she became pregnant. She and her... Read More
History MattersMay 1 to May 15, 2021 May 1, 2021 Showing our children that their past is prelude to their future. Read More
Walter Mondale, Ex-Vice President and Champion of Liberal Politics, Dies at 93 April 19, 2021 by Steven R. Weisman for The New York Times Under Jimmy Carter, he was the first V.P. to serve as a genuine partner of a president. His own run... Read More
What Walt Whitman Knew About Democracy April 17, 2021 by Mark Edmundson for The Wall Street Journal When Walt Whitman began conceiving his great volume of poetry, “Leaves of Grass,” in the 1850s, American democracy was in... Read More
History MattersApril 16 to April 30, 2021 April 16, 2021 History Matters - Showing our children that their past is prelude to their future by John Grimaldi and David Bruce... Read More
The Woman Who Made van Gogh April 14, 2021 by Russell Shorto for The New York Times Neglected by art history for decades, Jo van Gogh-Bonger, the painter’s sister-in-law, is finally being recognized as the force who... Read More
