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March against Monsanto: Raising concern over healthy food freedoms
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The loss of self-denial in our culture
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TV tonight: PBS features female Civil War soldier Loreta Velazquez
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Radical Islam does not exist: Islam is the enemy
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Dennis Jamison
D.A. Jamison is a student of life and for the purposes of this column, a student of history. He is actually paid to teach U.S. History, but is still secretly a student and continues to burn the midnight oil digging up the past from dust covered history texts. He now knows enough about the history of the United States to teach it to students of all ages. He also knows just enough about our nation’s history to be dangerous to those who would rather leave the past buried in cobwebs and dust.
As a student of life, he has observed that historical events did not occur within a vacuum or in isolated instances of specific endeavors, although the sharing of history may require a focus upon very specific historical parameters (the exciting vs. the mundane). By the same token, the study and teaching of history does not occur in a clean room. It is often influenced by the frame of mind of the participants. One obvious example occurs when contemporary cultural or moral standards are imposed upon ancient peoples.
Jamison is not only capable of teaching, but has written a number of articles representing his broad interest in the history of many peoples. But primarily, he is still learning new things about old stuff and is willing to share what he understands.
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Recent Entries by Dennis Jamison
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Armed Forces Day and America's vigil keepers
Published 9:04 a.m. May 18, 2013
Today is Armed Forces Day. Sadly, most Americans may not even realize that Armed Forces Day is even a legitimate holiday.
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Cinco de Mayo and the French invasion of Mexico
Published 9:33 a.m. May 5, 2013
The Cinco de Mayo celebrations began as an effort to remember the Mexican victory over superior French forces in 1862.
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The Boston Marathon Bombing and Patriot's Day
Published 10:02 a.m. April 30, 2013
The Boston bombings coincided with Patriots Day, set aside to remember Minutemen facing off against British regulars.
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Abigail Adams and women’s freedom
Published 4:35 p.m. March 28, 2013
Abigail Adams helped plant the seeds of the feminist movement
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George Washington and the fight for freedom
Published 11:05 a.m. March 1, 2013
George Washington was one of the most important Americans in the nation’s history.
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Presidents Day or George Washington's birthday?
Published 5:04 p.m. February 17, 2013
What exactly do we celebrate on the third Monday of February?
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Happy Birthday Abraham Lincoln: Creator of the Land of the Free
Published 4:21 p.m. February 12, 2013
Abraham Lincoln was a truly great president.
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Remembering President Ronald Wilson Reagan
Published 12:46 p.m. February 7, 2013
Ronald Reagan lead the Conservative arm of the Republican Party to triumph over the “Establishment Republicans”
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Remembering Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Published 2:30 p.m. January 31, 2013
FDR steered America through two very difficult times, far away from days of laissez-faire, yet eerily close to temptations of socialism.
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Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. - “Let Freedom Ring”
Published 3:40 p.m. January 25, 2013
America survived the Civil War and managed to end slavery, but The Land of the Free was yet unfulfilled and that's why Dr. King appeared.
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President Barack Hussein Obama and Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Published 3:53 p.m. January 21, 2013
Dr. King fought fought for freedom against a governmental system that controlled people for selfish benefit. Can the same be said of Obama?
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Linking the presidential inauguration and Martin Luther King, Jr. Day
Published 1:58 p.m. January 20, 2013
Presidential inauguration celebrations have been carefully orchestrated to make the most of linking Obama with the civil rights era.
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Benjamin Franklin on indebtedness
Published 7:03 p.m. January 16, 2013
“The second vice is lying, the first is running into debt," Benjamin Franklin.
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Emancipation Proclamation and the abolition of slavery
Published 9:39 p.m. January 9, 2013
As confusing or seemingly meaningless as the Emancipation Proclamation appeared on the surface of human events at the moment, it was brilliant statesmanship by President Abraham Lincoln.
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German spies aided Japanese Attack on Pearl Harbor!
Published 4:57 p.m. December 7, 2012
A relatively obscure factor of the successful sneak attack on Pearl Harbor was that a German spy family supplied key intelligence to the Empire of Japan for the six years prior to December 7, 1941.
