Tag: memory

Odd couple: Me on the front page, Hobby Lobby on the back

Today the Bowling Green Sentinel-Tribune published a nice profile (by David Dupont) of me and FIghting over the Founders, right on the front page.  The Sent-Trib doesn’t publish on Sundays or holidays, so this is its “Independence Day Weekend Edition.” And, right on cue, just as I point out that people use the founders for their political purposes, there’s […]

Sons of Liberty review roundup

Now that the dust has settled, some guys wearing 18th-century portraits are done playing casual ballgames for the year, and we in northwest Ohio are buried under 10 feet inches of snow, it’s time to sift through the reviews of the History Channel’s Sons of Liberty series that aired last month.

Best Super Bowl Commercial: American Revolution Turbotax, of course

 Tonight’s American Revolution surprise: a witty Turbotax commercial , complete with background music from a fellow whose name I once heard historian John Morton Blum pronounce in a lecture as “Bobby Die-lin” (I don’t think Blum was a big fan). Sure, what the colonists were protesting was lower taxes, more stringently enforced, but hey, it was a […]