history-of-the-united-states

My last thought before falling asleep was that we are all a lot more capable of conquering obstacles and fears than we think.

We need a new, deeper appreciation of the ethnic histories of the American people, not a reduction of American history to ethnic histories.

A Jewish woman in exile in the 1930s is an antihero.

The Nazi salute was performed by public officials in the USA from 1892 through 1942. The researcher Dr. Rex Curry asks 'What happened to the photographs and films of the American Nazi salute performed by federal, state, county, and local officials?' Those photos and films are rare because people don't want to know the truth. Public officials in the USA who preceded the German socialist (Hitler) and the Italian socialist (Mussolini) were sources for the stiff-armed salute (and robotic chanting) in those countries and other foreign countries.

The Pledge of Allegiance to the flag was the origin of the Nazi salute and Nazi behavior; and the swastika, although an ancient symbol, was also used to represent crossed 'S' letters for 'socialism' under the National Socialist German Workers Party.

All right. They__e on our left. They__e on our right. They__e in front of us, they__e behind us. They can__ get away this time_.

Two hundred years after Euro-Americans "discovered" it, America's river west begins and ends at pollution.

The main difference between a lawyer and a prostitute is that a prostitute won't screw you after you're dead.

Throughout the history of the Kensington Rune Stone in the twentiethcentury, memories of an ancient battle were repeatedly evoked toaddress the concerns about more recent battles. The skræling enduredas a convenient symbol of the threats posed by secularization, urbanization,and diversification. As sociologist Richard K. Fenn observes,__ny society is a reservoir of old longings and ancient hatreds. Theseneed to be understood, addressed, resolved and transcended if a societyis to have a future that is different from its past._ Furthermore, whena society does not adequately confront its past, it perpetually finds __new target that resembles but also differs from the source of originalconflict._ If Fenn is correct, old enemies will continue to emerge inthe face of new enemies unless Minnesotans can understand, address,resolve, and transcend the state__ original sin: the unjust treatment ofthe region__ first inhabitants.