Zachariah Morgan and Community

Black History Month: February

Guest Writer Bruce Catton*

. . . On the frontier if you helped others, they helped you and took you at your own valuation.

An interesting sample case is that of Zachariah and Mary Morgan, who went up to the edge of Pine Lake in 1870 and carved out a home when no one but vanished Indians and elusive land-lookers had ever seen that part of the country. 

International History in Film

Movies, VHS, DVD, TV, and Theatre

Movies have moved beyond entertainment. Today the best are informative, op-ed, history, or literature. Citing dramatic license and composite characters, filmmakers may or may not get the story accurate—sometimes even historians and talking heads don’t get the story right.

American History in Film

Movies, VHS, DVD, TV, and Theatre

Movies have moved beyond entertainment. Today the best are informative, op-ed, history, or literature. Citing dramatic license and composite characters, filmmakers may or may not get the story accurate—sometimes even historians and talking heads don’t get the story right.

Should Christians Bear Arms?

2nd Amendment

“This charge I commit to you … that you … might war a good warfare” (1 Timothy 1:18).

Can a Christian be an armed soldier? an armed lawman? an armed security guard? I would’ve thought that was settled with Sergeant York (1941).

Living Off the Land

Education, Environment, Evolution, and Error

“We used to be some of the fittest and strongest people, until we were stripped of our heritage, which is living off the land.” ~Shelbert Chasing Crow, Cheyenne

The lives of my grandparents began in the wilds of Appalachia. They had over a dozen children, and, in their early years, life for them wasn’t much different from the days of Daniel Boone and Davy Crockett. As young marrieds, they dwelt in a tiny post-and-beam cabin and lived off the land. My grandfather would hunt by day, fish, or pick berries, and, for dinner, bring home squirrel, rabbit, river trout, sun perch, catfish, or whatever else he could find.

Women in History—Molly Pitcher

Women’s History Month: March
Aviators, Educators, Inventors, Journalists, Nurses, Physicians, Scientists, and Soldiers

“History is herstory, too.”  ~Anonymous

Molly Pitcher/Mary Ludwig Hayes McCauley (1744-1832) was born to a German family in Pennsylvania.

Women in History—Beryl Markham

Women’s History Month: March
Aviators, Educators, Inventors, Journalists, Nurses, Physicians, Scientists, and Soldiers

“History is herstory, too.”  ~Anonymous

Beryl Clutterbuck Markham (1902-1986) was second of two children born in England to Charles Baldwin Clutterbuck and his wife, Clara Agnes Alexander.

Women in History—Marie Curie

Women’s History Month: March
Aviators, Educators, Inventors, Journalists, Nurses, Physicians, Scientists, and Soldiers

“History is herstory, too.”  ~Anonymous

Marie Salomea Skłodowska Curie (1867-1934) was born youngest of five children, in Warsaw, Poland, Russian sector, to Władysław Sklodowski, a math and physics instructor, and his Catholic wife, Bronislawa.

Women in History—Nellie Bly

Women’s History Month: March
Aviators, Educators, Inventors, Journalists, Nurses, Physicians, Scientists, and Soldiers

“History is herstory, too.”  ~Anonymous

Nellie Bly/Elizabeth Jane Cochran Seaman (1864-1922) was born in Cochrans Mill, Pennsylvania, to Judge Michael Cochran and his wife, Mary Jane; attended Indiana Normal boarding school briefly;

Women in History—Elizabeth Blackwell

Women’s History Month: March
Aviators, Educators, Inventors, Journalists, Nurses, Physicians, Scientists, and Soldiers

“History is herstory, too.”  ~Anonymous

Elizabeth Blackwell (1821-1910) was born in Bristol, England, third of nine children, to Samuel Blackwell, an industrialist, and his wife, Hannah Lane, and was taught at home by private tutors until age eleven,