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Learning About and Discussing History

John McNeer January 11, 2023January 30, 2023 2 Comments Ancient Apocalypse, Ancient History, Bimini Road, Derinkuyu, Docuseries, Gobekli Tepe, Graham Hancock, Gunung Padang, Ice Age, Malta, mounds, Neolithic, Netflix, poverty point, pseudoscience, serpent mound, Younger Dryas

Review: Graham Hancock’s Netflix Series Ancient Apocalypse– Deeply Flawed but Worth Watching

Review of Graham Hancock’s Netflix series Ancient Apocalypse

American History Commentary Modern World History

John McNeer April 29, 2020April 29, 2020 0 Comments #americanhistory, #benitomussolini, #deathofmussolini, #history, #italiancampaign, #italy, #milan, #mussolini, #secondworldwar, #ushistory, #veteran, #worldwarii, #worldwariiveteran, #wwii, #wwiiveteran, American History, Modern World History, US History

Weldon Reynolds Remembers the Death of Mussolini

75 years ago on April 28, 1945, Italian partisans killed dictator Benito Mussolini and his entourage near Lake Como. By

American History Commentary News

John McNeer February 25, 2020February 28, 2020 0 Comments #americandemocracy, #americanhistory, #conservation, #freedom, #history, #houseofburgesses, #liberty, #libertyordeath, #libertyordeathspeech, #monument, #patrickhenry, #preservation, #revolutionarywar, #richmond, #stjohnschurch, #ushistory, #virginiahistory, #warofindependence, news

A Call to Save Historic St. John’s Church

Historic St. John’s Church where Patrick Henry delivered his “Liberty or Death” Speech is in immediate need of repairs.

American History Commentary

John McNeer February 13, 2020February 13, 2020 1 Comment #alexanderhamilton, #americanhistory, #americanpolitics, #antifederalist, #britain, #constitution, #electionof1796, #electionof1800, #federalist, #founders, #founding, #foundingfathers, #france, #frenchrevolution, #genet, #georgewashington, #history, #impeachment, #jamesmadison, #jaytreaty, #marthawashington, #neutrality, #politics, #reignofterror, #revolutionarywar, #thomasjefferson, #usfounders, #ushistory, #warof1812, #washingtonadministration

The Rupture of George Washington’s and Thomas Jefferson’s Friendship and Its Importance [Abridged]

Author’s Note: In the more concise version of this post I will focus on an incident in 1800 that reveals

American History Commentary

John McNeer February 12, 2020February 13, 2020 4 Comments #alexanderhamilton, #americanhistory, #americanpolitics, #antifederalist, #britain, #constitution, #electionof1796, #electionof1800, #federalist, #founders, #founding, #foundingfathers, #france, #frenchrevolution, #genet, #georgewashington, #history, #impeachment, #jamesmadison, #jaytreaty, #marthawashington, #neutrality, #politics, #reignofterror, #revolutionarywar, #thomasjefferson, #usfounders, #ushistory, #warof1812, #washingtonadministration

The Rupture of George Washington’s and Thomas Jefferson’s Friendship and Its Importance

Author’s Note: When I started this blog I wanted to create concise but informative summaries that were either historically important

Ancient History Commentary Medieval/Renaissance History Modern World History News

John McNeer January 1, 2020January 1, 2020 4 Comments #archaeology, #assyrian, #babylonian, #barbaric, #diocletianscolonnade, #greek, #history, #isis, #khaledal-asaad, #khaledal-assad, #khaledalasaad, #khaledalassad, #khaledasaad, #middleeast, #palmyra, #persian, #phoenician, #roman, #romanempire, #syria, #templeofbaal, #templeofbel, #templeofthesun, #zenobia, ancienthistory, isil

Khaled al-Asaad, Historian, Scholar and Defender of Civilization

Khaled al-Asaad spent his life preserving the historic ruins at Palmyra and was willing to defend civilization with his life from the barbarism of ISIS

Commentary Modern World History

John McNeer December 13, 2019December 18, 2019 0 Comments #andalucia, #andalusia, #flamenco, #garcialorca, #history, #literatura, #literature, #lorca, #poem, #poetry, #riderssong, #salvadordali, #spanish, #spanishcivilwar, #spanishclass, #spanishlit, #spanishliterature, #theriderssong

The Rider’s Song, Foreshadowing Death in Spain

Garcia Lorca drew on the diverse culture and history of Andalusia to create a haunting poem foretelling his death.

Commentary Medieval/Renaissance History

John McNeer December 5, 2019 0 Comments #art, #arthistory, #bramante, #catholicchurch, #fresco, #history, #italinhistory, #italy, #juliusii, #michelangelo, #pope, #raphael, #renaissance, #rome, #sistinechapel, #stpeters, #zechariah, painting, renaissancehistory

A Secret Message for the Warrior Pope in the Sistine Chapel Ceiling

After being treated badly by his patron, Pope Julius II, the Warrior Pope, Michelngelo exacted revenge with a secret message in his Sistine Chapel painting