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Presidential Birthday for 29 March | Jerry Landry

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Studying History Since the 80s. Presidential Birthday for 29 March. Besides being the birthday of the sweet daughter of two dear friends of ours, today is also a presidential birthday! Adams described him as having talents not above mediocrity, and a spirit incapable of expansion to the dimensions of the station upon which he has been cast by the hand of Providence but Tyler quickly proved that he was one to be underestimated at his enemies’ peril. [3]. Despite this, Tyler was able to maintain and push t...

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Mr. Monroe | Jerry Landry

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Studying History Since the 80s. For someone who was present if not an active participant in so many major events in the early Republic, James Monroe is often forgotten. Thus, as his birthday is today, I wanted to share some of the achievements and notable points of Monroe’s life. He served under Washington in the Continental Army and was in fact the last Revolutionary veteran to serve as president. [1]. Monroe is the only US president who has a foreign capital (Monrovia, Liberia) named after him. [4].

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April | 2015 | Jerry Landry

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Studying History Since the 80s. For someone who was present if not an active participant in so many major events in the early Republic, James Monroe is often forgotten. Thus, as his birthday is today, I wanted to share some of the achievements and notable points of Monroe’s life. He served under Washington in the Continental Army and was in fact the last Revolutionary veteran to serve as president. [1]. Monroe is the only US president who has a foreign capital (Monrovia, Liberia) named after him. [4].

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November | 2014 | Jerry Landry

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Studying History Since the 80s. Fun Reads for the End of October. Geoff Johns and Ivan Reis Aquaman, Vol 1: The Trench. Alexander McCall Smith Unusual Uses for Olive Oil. James Robinson Justice League of America, Vol 10: The Rise of Eclipso. Stephen King The Shining. Hermann Pinnow History of Germany. On 1 November 2014 at 10:06 Leave a Comment. Marie Goocher's blog. Something Up Her Sleeve's blog. My Presence on the Web. Jackson Free Press – A New World or Another Old Dud? Charlotte Writers’ Club. Post ...

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May | 2014 | Jerry Landry

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Studying History Since the 80s. Tabatha Coffey Own It! Be the Boss of Your Life at Home and in the Workplace. Alexander McCall Smith The Lost Art of Gratitude. Howard Jones Mutiny on the Amistad: The Saga of a Slave Revolt and its Impact on American Abolition, Law, and Diplomacy. H W Brands Traitor to His Class: The Privileged Life and Radical Presidency of Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Alison Weir The Life of Elizabeth I. On 30 May 2014 at 16:15 Leave a Comment. The Life of Significant Soil. Moving forward...

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August | 2014 | Jerry Landry

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Studying History Since the 80s. O Captain, My Captain. David S Reynolds Walt Whitman. Robert V Remini Henry Clay: Statesman for the Union. Doris Kearns Goodwin No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front in World War II. Robert M Owens Jefferson’s Hammer: William Henry Harrison and the Origins of American Indian Policy. Alexis de Tocqueville Democracy in America. This was a great, full biography of FDR. I went into this book not knowing what I would think of our 32. Laura Childs’s Bl...

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Endings and Beginnings | Jerry Landry

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Studying History Since the 80s. Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities (1859). We’re at the 150. Anniversary of a monumental week in American history. On April 9. There are few moments in American history where there is a clearly defined beginning/end point, but this is arguably one of the most well-defined. The lives of so many people were forever changed with the war’s end. Indeed, on the 11. Burton Harrison writes to Davis’s wife Varina that an age seems to me to have passed. [2]. It was because of the...

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March | 2015 | Jerry Landry

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Studying History Since the 80s. Presidential Birthday for 29 March. Besides being the birthday of the sweet daughter of two dear friends of ours, today is also a presidential birthday! Adams described him as having talents not above mediocrity, and a spirit incapable of expansion to the dimensions of the station upon which he has been cast by the hand of Providence but Tyler quickly proved that he was one to be underestimated at his enemies’ peril. [3]. Despite this, Tyler was able to maintain and push t...

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April | 2014 | Jerry Landry

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Studying History Since the 80s. Barbara Graziosi The Gods of Olympus: A History. Patrick O’Brian Post Captain. Paul C Nagel John Quincy Adams: A Public Life, a Private Life. Richard Norton Smith An Uncommon Man: The Triumph of Herbert Hoover. Howard Jones Mutiny on the Amistad: The Saga of a Slave Revolt and its Impact on American Abolition, Law, and Diplomacy. Bruce Holsinger A Burnable Book. On 29 April 2014 at 08:55 Leave a Comment. What’s the Deal With Endings? Note: I wrote this yesterday and, thoug...

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What is an “Eisenhower Republican”? | Jerry Landry

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Studying History Since the 80s. What is an Eisenhower Republican? This Monday provided the latest instance of the governor of my home state of North Carolina, Pat McCrory, describing himself as an Eisenhower Republican. [1]. However, as we are nearly sixty years from Eisenhower’s last election, that term may be unfamiliar or not mean as much for many Americans. As I am currently reading a biography on Eisenhower [2]. I have had an opportunity to think about that. His take on the Cold War, though, was one...