Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter
As someone writing a blog on American Presidential history, and American history in general, it was natural my attention would …
Tag Archives: US History
The Problems Of America’s Oligarchy. And What To Do About It.
The American constitutional system is not simply odd, it is not even just unusual, it is unique. It is not repeated …
George Washington’s Teeth
The story of Washington’s teeth is worthy of a volume of it’s own. Certainly their own post. They were never …
A Special Relationship? – I Don’t Think So!
Today a Cross (very it seems) Party Commons Committee on Foreign Affairs has suggested that perhaps the Special Relationship has …
Thomas Mifflin
Not all of these Presidents were luminary figures. Then as now some were better than others and one of those …
Elias Boudinot
“Be religiously careful in our choice of all public officers . . . and judge of the tree by …
John Hanson – Pining for the Fjords?
Perhaps nowhere else are the difficulties of getting to the truth of American history made more apparent than with …
Thomas McKean : The Man from Delaware
Second in our series of Forgotten Presidents was Thomas McKean[i] born 1734 in New London, Chester County, Pennsylvania, but …
Samuel Huntingdon “First President of the USA”
The first of these Presidents of the United States “In Congress Assembled” was Samuel Huntingdon[i] fourth of a family …
The Forgotten Presidents of the Confederation
One argument which might be made against there being an oligarchy in respect of the Presidents of the United …
