Just like today, the country was deeply divided.
Emotions were high, reason and common sense almost absent.
Our future could mirror their past…
unless we reach Across the Great Divide.
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History is full of interesting characters. In this blog series, we meet just some of these History Makers.
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Did you know… Clyde Brooks?
We were riding a bus, in Mexico. Two white students and three black students wanted to eat together. The bus driver, from Illinois, told us we couldn't. READ MORE
Civil War Quotes of the week
April 26th, 1862. “There is no word in the English language that can express the state in which we are, and have been, these last three days. Day before yesterday, news came early... READ MORE
Did you know… Lyman Hall?
Continuing series on the Signers of the Declaration of Independence Lyman Hall was born April 12, 1724, in Wallingford, Connecticut, son of Rev. John Hall and his wife Mary. As a boy, he... READ MORE
Did you know… Benjamin Harrison?
Signers of the Declaration of Independence Benjamin Harrison V(April 5, 1726 – April 24, 1791) was born at Berkeley Plantation on the James River in Virginia, about thirty-two miles southeast of Richmond. His parents... READ MORE