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Memorial Day: “To Take Increased Devotion…”
Major General John Logan Friends of Padre Steve’s World, I detest the overly recreational and commercialized hype of how we Americans “celebrate” Memorial Day. It is a time for contemplation and...
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In Today’s Struggle for Principle with Trump there Will be No Republican...
Stephen A. Douglas Friends of Padre Steve’s World, As I watch President Trump’s administration attack the law, the Constitution, and violate the civil rights and human rights of citizens as well as...
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“I Will Live and Die under the Flag of the Union.” John Buford, Hero of...
Friends of Padre Steve’s World As I noted yesterday I am going to be posting about the Battle of Gettysburg for the next few days. All of these articles have appeared on my blog before and are part of...
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John Reynolds Gives Battle: Gettysburg Day One
Friends of Padre Steve’s World This is another section of my text on the Battle of Gettysburg dealing with General John Reynold’s and his decision to give battle as the cavalrymen of John Buford...
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The Ring-Bolt to the Chain of Our Nation’s Destiny: The Declaration of...
The Thirty Three Star Fort Sumter Flag Friends of Padre Steve’s World, It is July 4th and the 241st anniversary of the declaration by the leaders of 13 colonies of their independence from Britain and...
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“Was ever the Nation’s Birthday Celebrated in Such a Way Before?” July 4th...
Friends of Padre Steve’s World, A Union soldier, Elbert Corbin, Union Soldier at Gettysburg 1st Regiment, Light Artillery, N. Y. S. Volunteers (Pettit’s Battery) wrote of the aftermath of the Battle...
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Still Relevant Today: Frederick Douglass’s 4th of July Oration
Friends of Padre Steve’s World, These are the words of Frederick Douglass spoken on July 5th 1852 to a gathering of abolitionists in Rochester New York. He spoke them over 10 years before Abraham...
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“The Privilege of Belonging to the Superior Race” The Racist Justification of...
Friends of Padre Steve’s World I am tired after working on installing new flooring in my house today and I am too tired to write about any of the fiascos associated with the Trump tantrums against...
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A Man Characterized by Straightforward Truthfulness: Major General George...
Friends of Padre Steve’s World, Today was a long and busy day as tomorrow will be so I am going to re-publish a part of one of my Gettysburg texts about General George Meade. If I get a chance tomorrow...
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The Importance of Labor and Labor Day
Friends of Padre Steve’s World, Today is Labor Day and sadly many people don’t really understand its significance. For decades organized labor has been demonized by the descendants of people who died...
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Defending “The New Birth of Freedom” The Gettysburg Address in the Age of Trump
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2019: The Coming Disorder and a Spark that Cannot be Extinguished
Friends of Padre Steve’s World, Abraham Lincoln noted: “The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time.” It is good to remember Lincoln’s words in times of turmoils. I do, and they...
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Know Nothings, Racism, Walls and Trump
Friends of Padre Steve’s World, Long before President Trump was elected President and uttered the words Shithole countries” in slandering the people of Haiti as well as African nations; long before he...
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“We Must Fight them More Vindictively” The American Civil War: From Limited...
Friends of Padre Steve’s World Here is another reworked section of my Civil War and Gettysburg text. It deals with how the how the American Civil War changed from being a limited war to a people’s...
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From Limited to Total War: The American Civil War as a Watershed
Friends of Padre Steve’s World, As always I continue to revise my Gettysburg and Civil War texts. I am posting the second half of a majorly revised section dealing the the nature of the war, and how...
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The American Civil War and the Continuum of History, Humanity, and War
Friends Of Padre Steve’s World, Barbara Tuchman wrote: “No one is so sure of his premises as the man who knows too little.” Finite human beings find themselves bound by time and space, we live in the...
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“The Promise Being Made, Must be Kept…” Abolition, Emancipation, and Freedom...
Friends of Padre Steve’s World, February is Black History Month, it’s something that no American of any race, color, or creed should forget. African Americans, the decendants of slaves and slaves...
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America’s Original Sin and its Continuing Legacy: Part Two, “Liberty for the...
Friends of Padre Steve’s World, I am going to be posting a number of articles from my various texts dealing with the American Civil War era dealing with topics that some would want to forget, but are...
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the Four Freedoms, a Universal Message Which Needs to Be Heard Again
Friends of Padre Steve’s World, On January 6th 1941 President Franklin Delano Roosevelt delivered his State of the Union Message to Congress and the nation. I spent the time to both both read it and...
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“Together, There is no Other Way” Lyndon Johnson at Gettysburg and a...
Friends of Padre Steve’s World, I am about to finish Historian John Meacham’s inspiring history United States politics and the leadership of different Presidents, The Soul of America: The Battle for...
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