From the perspective of 2017, a hundred years ago seems might as well be the medieval age. Technology, globalization, medical science, really everything, has so permanently changed the way we all live that there seems to be little resemblance to… Read More ›
Tag Archive for ‘Woodrow Wilson’
The Two Faces of World War I: Before The Fighting & After
No matter how empathetic a person may be who pauses today to remember the millions of American military forces who served in armed conflict, the experience of war can’t help but remain an abstract one. Those who’ve known what it’s… Read More ›
The Kooky Dame Who Started Mother’s Day – Then Tried to Destroy It: From the Archives
In recent months, a number of personal and professional obligations has limited the time necessary to generate the amount of new articles which have typically appeared on carlanthonyonline.com. In reviewing the several hundred original-content articles which are rather deeply buried… Read More ›
Five Presidents Who Went to War & Killed Themselves For It: Wilson (Part 3)
Woodrow Wilson and World War I (this separate article appeared yesterday as part of one which considered William McKinley) A childhood dominated by the strict inculcation of pre-destiny by his father, a Presbyterian minister, and the deprivation of war which… Read More ›
When Three Presidents Ran Against Each Other But Whiskey Won the Election: The 1912 Campaign Songs of Teddy Roosevelt, Taft & Wilson
Historically, running for President against a President is always an uphill battle. Especially for someone unwary of Washington’s wily ways. First of all, they know what they’re talking about after four years of working on the job and trying to… Read More ›
Bomb Threats, Suffragists & Wilson’s Broken Pledge: The 1917 Sunday Inauguration, Part 5
Swear on a Sunday? No problem, if your Sunday Inauguration happens to also be your second Inauguration. Six of President Obama’s predecessors also had Inauguration Days which fell on a Sunday, but only three were also being inaugurated for a… Read More ›
The Double Rarity of Obama’s 2013 Sunday Second Inauguration, Part 1
The ceremonies to be held two weeks from this coming Sunday and Monday, on January 20, 2013 (and January 21, 2013) marking the second Inauguration Day of President Barack Obama is only the seventh time in American history that the… Read More ›
The Armistice, A Day My Grandfather Never Surrendered
Today was Veterans Day – but yesterday will always be Armistice Day. The November federal holiday honoring those who have served in the American military has been called Veterans Day far longer than the name it was first known by,… Read More ›
A First Lady’s Princess Complex: Royalty, Racism & Edith Wilson’s Pocahontas Blood
This is the second to last article in a series on First Ladies’ ancestral identities. Previous articles on Michelle Obama, Jacqueline Kennedy, Eleanor Roosevelt, Florence Harding, Pat Nixon, Hillary Clinton can be found by searching at right, in the categories… Read More ›
Jimmy Carter’s Green “Country” Brand: His 1976 Campaign Song
Few run for President on a set of promises to the people which they then insist on keeping once they are elected, with such conviction that it then helps them lose re-election. It was an important storyline underlining the phenomena which… Read More ›
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