Posted on 06/18/2015 8:37:36 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
My wife teaches high school in a suburb of Washington D.C. and she tells me that the students have no idea even who Franklin Roosevelt was, much less any of the founding fathers. On the other hand, they are bombarded with lessons about Rosa Parks, gay rights and etc.
Margaret Sanger?
I am not one of those Freepers.
Alexander Hamilton’s idea of what a federal government should be to what it is today, is what a Husky sled dog in John Carpenter’s “The Thing” is to what it eventually metastasized into at the end of the movie.
Hamilton would be disgusted and appalled at what our fiscal polices have become.
The fact that he may have expressed admiration for monarchy at some point, or had funny ideas about other trappings of government makes not a bit of difference. He wasn’t the person to enact those changes, and he was in a government where people were free to speak their minds for good or evil.
What is important is that he was in charge of our embryonic fiscal policy at a time when we needed someone smart, talented and energetic to steer it. He was the one to do it, and he did.
We should be ashamed for letting it become what it has.
“Just refuse to use the $10. Seen any Susan B Anthony dollar coins lately?”
Hard to do for the budget stressed.
Maybe better idea is to tear the bill up (I’d say ten strips) and tape it back together.
Maybe they should leave well enough alone and come up with a three dollar bill with Caitlyn Jenner’s face on it.
As time in my teaching career passed, I found it harder and then impossible to find texts that covered the first half of the 20th century adequately. It takes time to cover the Great Depression and the New Deal and the newer texts just don’t do them justice. Besides, the joy of making the kids learn about the “alphabet-soup” agencies and outfits like the Southen Tenant Farmers Union (STFU) made it a good lesson to teach. I found my lesson on the TVA (”a giant dam project, that hired a lot of dam workers, that used a lot of dam-building materials, that resulted in a lot of cheap dam electricity, etc., etc.) was a favorite with my students.
World War II in my latest text had one five-page lesson on the rise of Hitler, Mussolini, Japan, invasion of Poland, France, Battle of Britain, and Pearl Harbor—really? As much space was devoted to the “home front” which was really about women in the factories, the plight of black workers, Mexicans being deported, and of course, the detention of the Japanese-Americans. No mention of the fate of the Marines at Wake. Guadalcanal might have gotten a sentence, Midway, a couple.
Part of this is, I know, is the passage of time. Those who lived through those times are leaving us—but the key events that shaped the 20th century, as well as our own times deserve space, time and thought—even on the part of 8th graders.
In my view, the key events that shaped the 20th Century, and even our world today occurred in the First World War. One of my wife’s colleagues asked her to recommend a book about WWI, and she in turn asked me. I suggested “The Guns of August”, a rather obvious place to begin, and mentioned “Goodby to All That” and “All Quite on the Western Front”. Barbara Tuchman’s book turned out to be a revelation.
Somebody over at Foxnews.com is suggesting Bo Derek. Nice.
I agree. World War I is still biting us in the butt today. Virtually all,of the Middle East problems date from then, the rise of the USSR and communism, the destruction of a whole European generation, the list of consequences can go on and on.
Another good World War I read is August 1914 by Solzhenitsyn.
The Constitution allows states to directly tax incomes but not the federal government (At least the Constitution prior to the 16th amendment) yet income taxes did not come into widespread use until the federal income tax was put in place.
And it was Progressive Republicans that pushed for the income tax.
Alice Paul Biography Women's Rights Activist (1885–1977)
Publisher, Civil Rights Activist, Editor, Women's Rights Activist, Journalist (1820–1906)
Women's Rights Activist (1815–1902)
The two I have never heard of are Alice Paul and Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Dear m kehoe,
CHEESE N RICE!!!!
You obviously do NOT have the quarter to buy the clue, to understand who that Molly Pitcher that I referenced is, do you?!?!?
Try this for size:
http://www.revolutionary-war.net/molly-pitcher.html
/S
Refuse to accept the new $10 as change. Demand 2 $5 bills instead. It’ll die a swift death, just like the Susan B. Anthony dollar coin did
Susan B. Anthony was pro-life. Too controversial.
Of course I know who Molly Pitcher is, that's why I seconded your nomination.
I also have a FRiend named "Molly Pitcher."
CHEESE N RICE!!!
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