I like to joke that she's the tallest immigrant to ever arrive in America, as she does stand just slightly over 151 feet tall. Well, that's the statue. On her pedestal she stands more than 300 feet tall, and is among the most beautiful and inspiring things I've ever seen. On June 17th, 1885, she arrived aboard the French steamer Isère, broken into more than 300 pieces and packed into more than 250 containers. Her name, of course, is Lady Liberty, or the Statue of Liberty, al

It is June 14th, 1777. General Washington started 1777 with a victory at Assunpink Creek, and followed up with a win at Princeton. General Arnold harassed British regulars near Ridgefield, reforming militia and artillery repeatedly in a running battle that saw British forces fall at a three to one rate of American. At both of those battles, American standard bearers of the Continental Army were most likely to have been carrying what is now referred to as the Grand Union Fla

We're approaching Independence Day here in America on July 4th, and of course that day is big and important, but as a history nerd I've always been more than a little fascinated with how we got there, so this day is historically interesting to me. On June 11th, 1776, the Second Continental Congress formed a committee, referred to as The Committee of Five and chaired by Thomas Jefferson of Virginia. He was joined by fellow John Adams of Massachusetts, Roger Sherman of Connecti

It's always been possible to whip up a crowd and move them to do the bidding of a charismatic leader. It's always been possible to turn that crowd to acts of violence, or convince them that the truth isn't actually true. We just lived through four years of it, listening to a President lie to us, while telling us that everyone else is lying and that only he can be trusted. This concept was preposterous to me, and continues to be so, but even with his fall from true political p