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Aspiring poet joins White House staff and beyond: John Taliaferro tells the story of John Hay

Aspiring poet joins White House staff and beyond: John Taliaferro tells the story of John Hay

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...
History in Five Friday: David Maraniss on Vince Lombardi

History in Five Friday: David Maraniss on Vince Lombardi

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...
Roosevelt’s Signature and Wiley’s Death: June 30th in American history

Roosevelt’s Signature and Wiley’s Death: June 30th in American history

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...

Strain Out a Gnat and Swallow a Camel: How Reverse Statism Endangers the Republic

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...

Odd Ones Out: Why Third Parties Don’t Fit in the American Political System (Or, “A History of America’s Proudest Losers”)

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...
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