75 Years Ago Today: The First Of Many Kennedy Tragedies

75 years ago today, the oldest of the Kennedy children, Joseph P. Jr. was killed in action during World War Two. This started a long line of tragedy and early death for the Kennedy family. Joseph P. Kennedy Jr. was incredibly smart, handsome, and talented. His father had been grooming him to be President since […]

John F. Kennedy: From Sickly Kid to War Hero

John F. Kennedy’s childhood was far from ideal, even farther from easy. When he was three years old he contracted scarlett fever, which hospitalized him for nearly three months. Later in his childhood and teenage years he suffered from diphtheria, appendicitis, whooping cough, jaundice, asthma, and pneumonia. By the time he turned 17, he had spent […]

June 11, 1963: A Decade in One Day

56 years ago today, June 11, 1963 was a monumental one in the American civil rights movement. It is the type of day that entire novels are written about, as it personifies the triumph and the tragedy of the 1960’s. That morning, two African American students, Vivian Malone and James Hood, arrived at the University […]

The Long and Slow Road To Justice in Mississippi

25 years ago today, February 5, 1994, Byron De La Beckwith was finally convicted for the murder of civil rights activist Medgar Evers. Evers was killed on June 12, 1963. It was a seminal moment in the American civil rights movement. Evers was born in 1925 in Decatur, Mississippi. When he was fourteen, Evers witnessed […]

The J.F.K. Assassination and Thanksgiving: A Joint Lesson

In addition to today being Thanksgiving, it is also the 55th anniversary of the murder of President John F. Kennedy. These two occasions are quite different, as one causes to rejoice with appreciation while the other causes us to mourn about all that was robbed from us. By thinking about them together, we might […]

What the Cuban Missile Crisis Teaches Us 55 Years Later

If by some chance you could enter a time capsule and travel back to October of 1962, you would see one thing all across America: fear. Bomb shelters were being stocked. Parents were speaking in hushed tones, schools were being cancelled. Americans everywhere were talking about their plans in case of a Soviet Missile […]