Saint Augustine (Florida) is the oldest European settlement occupied today in the continental part of the present territory of the United States. It was founded by Pedro Menéndez de Avilés on August 28, 1565, and not for colonial or economic reasons, but military ones. Spain located a military conti
Richard Nixon , Antoine Coppolani, Fayard, 2012 Here you will find a telling, if anecdotal, excerpt from the book:https://brumes.wordpress.com/2013/10/26/nixon-liddy-et -the-watergate-excerpt-from-nixon-dantoine-coppolani/ I had already written a set of remarks about Richard Nixon, after reading Ro
I think Im a big world history enthusiast, but I first learned the name Martin Van Buren when I wrote this blog. It seems that the era from the American Revolutionary War to the Civil War is called the Jackson era, but the president from Jackson to Lincoln actually has little achievement to say th
It is difficult to understand, now that an African-American resides in the White House and holds the most powerful position in the world, that until relatively few years ago in the United States there was a policy of racial segregation based on regulations such as those known as the Jim Crow Laws, w