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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…
Somewhere in the middle between the size of our vast universe and a tiny neutrino are human beings. We do not know the exact size of the universe. We know it is massive. The farthest we have seen so far…
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…
