America: Chapter One – Indians

Native Americans (even pre-Columbian ones) are often enlisted in our contemporary debates through commercials and quotes.  Such as when Iron Eyes Cody an Italian American actor famous for portraying Indians stood with an artificial tear rolling down his cheek as he looked at discarded fast food wrappers, or the stirring environmental speech supposedly given byContinue reading “America: Chapter One – Indians”

America: Colonial History – Introduction

History has a reputation of being “BORING!”   Back in the Dream Times before the dawn of the Internet, YouTube, and Facebook Early American History was almost exclusively the History of English-speaking man.  The geographic area was restricted to the Atlantic coast of North America, and that was about it.  Sure, everyone assumed there were womenContinue reading “America: Colonial History – Introduction”