by J. Jerrald Hayes | Nov 11, 2023 | Behavior, History, Military, Recommended Reading
My thinking on this Remembrance Day Nov 11, 2023 at 11:23:32 AM… No man left behind: The extreme measures to bring missing soldiers home The “No man left behind” creed is exemplified in one group’s efforts to return the remains of missing...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Nov 7, 2023 | History, Religion
I am one of the “radicals” who happens to think in all probability Jesus Christ the historical figure never really existed and he like many other figures in history are just myths. I think there is more evidence for a real John Henry than there is a real...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Sep 9, 2023 | History, Humanities, Important People
This is interesting and I learned something about someone I had never heard of before, Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz. 8 Child Prodigies Who Changed the World These whiz kids quickly dispensed with the training wheels before zooming to the top of their respective...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Sep 7, 2023 | • Politics, Black Lives Matter, Books, History, News & Opinion, Religion, Right Wing Lunacy
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/09/05/robert-jones-interview-book/ And Robert P. Jones latest book: The Hidden Roots of White Supremacy: and the Path to a Shared American Future by Robert P. Jones Taking the story of white supremacy in America back to...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Dec 25, 2021 | • Politics, History
Why Leftists Should Embrace Our Proud History, from Thomas Paine to the New Deal ❧ Current Affairs Historian Harvey J. Kaye has long argued that leftists are too negative about American history, and that our focus on its horrors and miseries risks downplaying the...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Jul 18, 2021 | History, Quotations, Memes, & Lessons From Life, Racism
“Before our white brothers arrived to make us civilized men, we didn’t have any kind of prison. Because of this, we had no delinquents. Without a prison, there can be no delinquents. We had no locks nor keys and therefore among us there were no thieves....
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Aug 14, 2020 | Atheism, History, Religion
Seth Andrews reveals why the United States isn’t founded on Christianity, and why the Christian Nation narrative is actually a betrayal of the U.S. Constitution.
by J. Jerrald Hayes | May 13, 2019 | • Politics, History
A very interesting and scary part of our history that is never really discussed or looked at. To the best of my recollection, I never learned of this during my high school American history classes and the first time I heard of it was on The History Channel (which is...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Nov 24, 2017 | History
Most Everything You Learned About Thanksgiving Is Wrong Beyond that, claiming it was the “first Thanksgiving” isn’t quite right either as both Native American and European societies had been holding festivals to celebrate successful harvests for...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Sep 4, 2016 | • Politics, History
The Photos That Helped End Child Labor in the United States In the early 1900s, Lewis Hine left his job as a schoolteacher to work as a photographer for the National Child Labor Committee, investigating and documenting child labor in the United States. As a...
