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Years ago, the Potawatomi tribe of Native Americans, located in what is now northeast Wisconsin around the Great Lakes area, began teaching their children seven philosophical teachings that would help them to have good relations with their fellow tribesmen and…
Nearly every culture on Earth has an origin story. We humans have always had a driving desire to know where we came from and how we got here. Many years before science started giving us the answers we sought, our…
It was probably not the intent of neolithic farmers 10,000 years ago to turn a type of wild grass into one of today’s multi-billion-dollar crops. They were merely trying to render edible the plants they found growing around them. These…
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…
There are a few inventions humans have come up with that literally changed our behavior patterns. Probably the first two that come to mind are agriculture and language. We must eat and we must communicate. For thousands of years early…
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…
Living, learning, relating to others. It all comes down to you and me and how we manage our conduct in light of our philosophies, our political and social biases, our love and compassion for each other, our dislike for each…
An Ancient Place in Ireland The world is full of old structures that we modern folks have not yet figured out exactly how or why they were built. Two popular places that readily come to mind are Stonehenge and the…
French explorer Samuel de Champlain first came to North America in 1603 and began laying the groundwork for French occupation of much of what is now Canada and the Mississippi River valley of the United States. At about the same…
Charlotta Drayton understood where she and her home fit into her family’s and her nation’s history. Born in 1884 into one of Charleston, South Carolina’s oldest and most influential families, she grew up listening to her parents and grandparents discussing…
