Tag: blacklives
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The Most Remarkable POW Escape of All Time?
During World War Two there were some remarkable escapes by prisoners of war (usually abbreviated to POW), and movies have been made about them. By far the best known is the one by more than 70 Allied pilots and aircrew, who tunneled out of the German Stalag Luft III in March of 1944. That escape earned…
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Andrew and Rachel Jackson
If you’re looking for great American love stories, Andrew and Rachel Jackson might seem a bit odd. Images of Rachel show a stout middle-aged woman who liked to smoke a pipe, not the beautiful young woman who’s the usual image in a love story. Images of Jackson from his presidency show a somewhat gaunt, aging man looking alert, wary and suspicious, like…
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Stand Watie, the Cherokee Confederate General
The last Confederate general to surrender in the American Civil War did so on June 23, 1865. He was brigadier general Stand Watie, a member of the Cherokee tribe. Watie’s story is remarkable. He was born in the ancient Cherokee homeland in the mountains in Georgia. The Cherokee were a powerful tribe, considered one of the “Five Civilized Tribes.” Those were…
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Rupert’s Land
One of the British North American colonies is usually forgotten about. It had a very small population, it was remote, it was closed off much of the year because of winter ice. It was huge, larger than the whole United States east of the Mississippi River. It was Rupert’s Land. You never heard of it. So who was Rupert and where…
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Bread and Roses
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An 1692 Love Story
Sometimes a story from long ago can show the love between a man and a woman, something like the way an ember from a blazing fire can still glow in the night. This story involves Captain Nathaniel Cary and his wife, Elizabeth. They were married in 1666 when she was 16 and he was 21. He became a ship captain…