6/17/1972 - Watergate break-in. Coverup brings down a president. History politics

6/17/1775 - Battle of Bunker Hill; 6/17/1885 - Statue of Liberty arrives in New York. History has some good days.

4/14/1865- Father Abraham shot at Ford's Theater. A gentle soul and valiant warrior is stilled.

Another very old building torn down, and ATTMP author Monica Brinkman reacts. http://ping.fm/aItB6 Preserving our history.

Okay, President Obama was wrong - Hayes never said that about the telephone. Fun history. http://ping.fm/VVUMu

2/20/1792: Postal Service Act signed by President George Washington. Free flow of communication is essential to a democracy.

History gives us great fictions. Here's a charming tale of love, embarrassment, and deceit for your delectation. http://ping.fm/S1iH9

Aaron Burr, George Mead, Custer, Doug MacArthur, New Gingrich - American history is replete with self-aggrandizing incompetents.

1/14/1943, Pres. Roosevelt & P.M. Winston Churchill open wartime conference in Casablanca. Usual suspects no doubt rounded up.

1/12/1915, U.S. House of Representatives rejects proposal to give women right to vote. Don't allow politicians to turn you back to chattel.

12/18/1620: 102 pilgrims aboard Mayflower land in present-day Plymouth, Mass. They survived - a miracle; fate of Natives - disaster.

A good read for the holidays: ATTMP author Charles Rodenbough describes Samuel Dewey's exploits in Stealing Andrew Jackson's Head. http://ping.fm/jkVND

12/16/1773: Boston Tea Party - Protesting Tea Act, colonists disguised as Mohawk Indians dump crates of tea into Boston harbor.

12/9/1990: Lech Wałęsa elected president of Poland. A major step in the fall of Communism. Only 21 years ago. History moves quickly.

Good read for holidays: ATTMP author Charles Rodenbough tells Samuel Dewey's exploits Stealing Andrew Jackson's Head. http://ping.fm/6XISP

12/4/1783: George Washington takes leave of his officers at Fraunce's Tavern in New York. A giant among men

11/ 27/1973, Senate votes 92-3 confirms Gerald R. Ford as vice president. Agnew had resigned. Could present senate agree that way?

Ireland's most dangerous man deleted from history. ATTMP author M.J. Neary's Martyrs & Traitors: A Tale of 1916 http://ping.fm/EVEOX

11/19/1863, Abe Lincoln delivers Gettysburg Address dedicating cemetery at site of Civil War battle "For the people - not corporations"

11/16/1940: Nazis imprison 380,000 in Warsaw Ghetto. Willingness of powerful to destroy the weak is measure of historical illegitimacy.