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In Margaret Mitchel’s Civil War novel, Gone with the Wind, published in 1936, she had planter Gerald O’Hara make a statement to his daughter Scarlett that sums up one of the primary causes of human migrations as well as many…
There is an old German saying that reads: “Aller anfang sind schwer.” It translates to: “All beginnings are difficult.” That proved to be especially true during the 16th and 17th centuries when England was attempting to start colonies in America.…
Americans have found that building and maintaining a nation that includes peoples from all over the world and every possible lifestyle from the menial workers to the masters of industry and capitalism requires intelligence, tolerance, and perseverance. In the formative…
To have a flower named after you is an honor to any botanist. To have traveled in Europe, the Middle East, North America, and Africa and to have catalogued over 700 plants, have your name on several flowers and ferns…
We’ve all heard the expression “publish or perish” when applied to an academic career. Many universities, for example, require a certain level of publication in scholarly journals in order for an instructor to get tenure. Although Thomas Harriot was not…
On December 2, 1942 at 3:25pm the world changed. That was when a team of about 48 scientists led by physicist Enrico Fermi was able to achieve the world’s first sustained nuclear chain reaction. Also important on that fateful day…
Early America, like today, had its controversial figures. Most early colonists came to America to acquire land and establish a home without much interference from a strong government and certainly no unnecessary taxes. The first European settlers who arrived in…
Following America’s war of independence, 1775 – 1783, Charleston, South Carolina native, John Faucheraud Grimke’, born in 1752, became a successful lawyer, judge, legislator, mayor of Charleston, plantation owner, slave owner, and wrote books on South Carolina law that were…
There is never a good side to a war. But one of its byproducts is that sometimes the people dislocated by it are able to put their talents and abilities to good use in their new home. This was the…
Henry Woodward comes into history as a twenty-year-old on June 22, 1666 aboard the ship Berkeley Bay on a voyage of exploration with Lt. Col. Robert Sandford. They along with twenty others in two small ships had sailed south from…
