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Casimir Pulaski: 5 Facts on Chicago's Beloved Polish Hero
By Torie Bosch - AOL NewsOn March 12, the city of Chicago will celebrate all things Irish by dyeing the Chicago River green. But today is for the Polish. The first Monday in March is Casimir Pulaski Day in Chicago, when schools and other government institutions are closed to honor a man who is a hero to both the Polish and Americans. So who is Pulaski? Surge Desk has found out. 1. Polish war hero From 1768 to 1771, Pulaski, who was born in Poland, fought against Russian and Prussian forces that were wielding enormous influence in Poland. But he was forced to leave Poland forever after being accused of ...
School District Apologizes for Mock Slave Auction in Class
By David Moye - AOL NewsA school district in central Ohio is apologizing for using a mock slave auction to teach social studies to elementary school students. During an American history lesson at Chapelfield Elementary School in Gahanna, Ohio, the class was divided into slaves and masters. Nikko Burton, an African-American student who was assigned to the role of the slave, told WBNS-TV that while being a slave didn't bother him at first, he soon became offended. WBNS Nikko Burton, 10, told WBNS-TV he was upset over being made to play a slave for a class at Chapelfield Elementary School in Gahanna, ...
Michele Bachmann Schooled by Anderson Cooper on Eve of Her State of the Union Rebuttal [VIDEO]
By Mary Phillips-Sandy - AOL NewsMinnesota Rep. Michele Bachmann has strong views on U.S. history. And according to CNN's Anderson Cooper, many of them are factually incorrect. On his Monday broadcast, Cooper zeroed in on Bachmann's recent remarks about diversity in America, in which she claimed that language differences and skin color "didn't matter" in the early days of our democracy and that America's founding fathers -- many of whom were slave Related Stories State of the Union Address [LIVE FEED] owners -- "worked tirelessly until slavery was no more in the United States." "As good as that ...
Opinion: Memo to Tea Partiers -- The Founders Were Elitists
By not in system - AOL News(Oct. 6) -- In a recent interview, John Kerry described the American electorate as people who don't "always pay much attention to what's going on" and who "are influenced by a simple slogan rather than by the facts or the truth." Kerry's political opponents -- especially the members of the tea party and other populists -- are having a field day with his remarks. From a political perspective, Kerry's comments were pretty dumb, especially coming from a former presidential candidate who was lambasted in 2004 for being too "elite." But was Kerry right about the American electorate? In a recent ...
Opinion: Celebrating Flag Day the Right Way
By not in system - AOL News(June 14) -- Today we celebrate Flag Day, commemorating that day in 1777 when the Continental Congress formally established the Stars and Stripes as the official flag of the United States (it was first celebrated in Philadelphia in 1893, and as a national holiday in 1949). I must admit, I have always had a soft spot for this obscure patriotic holiday because it also happened to be my grandfather's birthday. He had a particular love for Old Glory. Still, it's easy to forget Flag Day, as it lacks the solemnity of a Memorial Day or the festivity of July 4. But I also think that ignoring Flag ...
Opinion: Colleges Get Failing Grades on Civics
By not in system - AOL News(April 8) -- On this day 97 years ago, the 17th Amendment was ratified, changing the way we elect senators. Not that many college students would know anything about it, either when they get to college or when they graduate. For the past five years, the Intercollegiate Studies Institute has tried to measure how well colleges and universities do in giving their students a basic understanding of America's core history, key texts, and enduring political and economic institutions. The results aren't pretty. Half of the 14,000 incoming freshmen tested failed the 60-question multiple-choice test, ...
Get On Down, Moses: The Exodus and American History
By James Daubs - Politics DailyReview of Bruce Feiler, America's Prophet: Moses and the American Story (New York: William Morrow, 2009). 368 pages. $26.99. Bruce Feiler must have had a great many unused notes on Moses lying around after he finished his best-selling "Walking the Bible: A Journey By Land through the Five Books of Moses." I honestly can think of no other reason for his coming out with "America's Prophet: Moses and the American Story," which resembles nothing so much as a heavily padded term paper -- padded with dialogue and narrative, that is, not with documentation -- by a student whose teacher taught him the ...
My Empire Tis of Thee...
By James Daubs - Politics DailyReview of Thomas F. Madden, "Empires of Trust" (New York: Dutton, 2008, $25.95; paperback, Plume Books, 2009, $17)The French demographer Emmanuel Todd made quite a splash in 1976 when he predicted the fall of the Soviet Union, basing his prediction on declining Soviet birth rates and other demographic factors. His prescience in regard to the Soviet Empire seems to have lent a great deal of credibility to his later works, including 2003's "After the Empire: The Breakdown of the American Order," which was much lauded in France before being alternately skewered and praised in the United States as ...
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