by jeff.sanders | Mar 25, 2020 | Blog
In 2018 a group of Harvard scholars (historians, geologists, and climatologists) concluded that the worst year ever was the year 536 AD. Not the years of the bubonic plague (1347-1352)? Not the years of World War 2 (1939-1945)? Nope. They concluded that 536 was the...
by jeff.sanders | Feb 28, 2020 | Blog
From time to time historians are able to uncover, or recover, true stories that have faded from memory. Fortunately, in the past 20 years ago historians have recovered the story of Abraham Galloway: spy, abolitionist, and legislator. Galloway was born in 1837 along...
by jeff.sanders | Feb 24, 2020 | Blog
As I am reading through books by William Edward Burghardt DuBois and Booker Taliaferro Washington, I am struck by the earnestness with which both men value and pursue education as a main avenue to improve their own lives and the lives of their fellow citizens....
by jeff.sanders | Feb 21, 2020 | Blog
As I am reading both Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. DuBois, I came across this comment from Mr. DuBois regarding the pursuit of constitutional rights. Please note the balance between his support and criticism of Washington’s “Atlanta Exposition...
by jeff.sanders | Feb 18, 2020 | Blog
I am currently reading two books, and both are fascinating. I am reading Booker T. Washington’s “Up From Slavery”, and W.E.B. DuBois’ “The Souls of Black Folk.” Both men wrote in a time when black Americans were enormously oppressed...
