Historically yours teddy roosevelt: “I took the panama canal”
America reached an impasse in 1903 concerning a treaty to build a canal through the Panama area of Colombia. We entered into an agreement to pay Colombia $10,000,000... Read more.
Historically Yours: Mary Surratt and the Lincoln Assassination Conspiracy
Did Mary Surratt hang for her son’s guilt? Eight people were convicted by the military court of helping John Wilkes Booth murder President Lincoln on April 14,... Read more.
Historically Yours – The Smartest Person I Ever Knew
Despite my father’s formal education ending at age 16, I believe he is the smartest person I have ever known. As a young man, my father drove a truck before... Read more.
HISTORICALLY YOURS Satires and Hoaxes of Benjamin Franklin
Benjamin Franklin’s accomplishments for our nation are endless. He also helped invent America’s unique style of homespun humor, satire and hoaxes. His publications... Read more.
Benjamin Franklin and William, his illegitimate son
If England, then the world’s greatest military power in 1776, had won our Revolutionary War, our history books would read that the great American hero was not... Read more.
Historically Yours “Ma! Ma! Where’s My Pa?” “Gone to t he White House, Ha! Ha! Ha!”
The presidential election of 1884 is regarded as one of the dirtiest in American history. It pitted New York Democratic Governor Grover Cleveland, a corruption reformer,... Read more.
Historically Yours: FDR nearly assassinated in Miami
The fate of the world hung in the balance of events in Miami on February 15, 1933. Three months earlier, Democrat Franklin Delano Roosevelt won the presidential... Read more.
HISTORICALLY YOURS: Black Righs- Cruikshank and the filthy election of 1876
Almost all of the rights obtained by blacks during the Post-Civil War Reconstruction period were wiped out by a terrible Supreme Court decision and a filthy presidential... Read more.
HISTORICALLY YOURS Lincoln created Jefferson
Jefferson can thank Lincoln for the current interpretation that Jefferson’s Declaration of Independence forms the basis for all minority rights. Jefferson’s... Read more.
HISTORICALLY YOURS “God bless you all. I AM an innocent man”
The 1909 Supreme Court case of U.S. vs. Shipp is an amazing story which provided what many acknowledge as the foundation for federal habeas corpus actions in state... Read more.