by Amanda Read Sheik | Feb 12, 2016 | History Author Show
Behind-the-scenes stories are perhaps my favorite historical records, and this one gives us a glimpse of what it was like to start out as a White House staffer during the Lincoln administration. John Hay had poetic aspirations, but his writing talent caught...
by Amanda Read Sheik | Feb 6, 2016 | History Author Show
It’s the weekend of Super Bowl L (50), and to commemorate the national game, we’ve brought some football stories to the History Author Show. Listen to the History in Five Friday segment with David Maraniss, author of When Pride Still Mattered: A Story of...
by Amanda Read Sheik | Jun 30, 2015 | Dramatizing History, Literary Projects, Luke Historians
From my Crusading Chemist website: …June 30th is another example of bizarre historical dates that seem to have transcendent value. On that day a little more than two decades later, Harvey W. Wiley passed away. A year before, Wiley had published his book The...
by Amanda Read Sheik | Oct 31, 2012 | Politics, Satire, The Washington Times Communities, World Views
If you want to send a message to Washington, you must speak in its language. Washington only comprehends the electorate’s desires based upon the margin of victory between the winning candidate and the losing candidate from the opposing major party. If Obama...
by Amanda Read Sheik | Oct 24, 2012 | Politics
Even constitutional purist icon Ron Paul has not endorsed a third party candidate this election season. That should tell you a little about the dire ineffectuality of third partyism at this fiscally and morally calamitous moment in America’s history. To add...
