A new documentary has been released called “Bisbee ’17” about American life under President Wilson after his successful 1916 “America First” campaign. NPR gives us the synopsis of the Bisbee Deportation story: The event itself has become known as the Bisbee Deportation. On July 12, 1917, roughly 1,200 copper miners, who’d been striking for better … Continue reading Ethnic Cleansing in America: 1917 Bisbee Deportation
A friend recently went through my liquor cabinet and pulled out a mostly-empty bottle of Knob Creek. I had forgotten about it, although in the early-1990s it had been a favorite. It was introduced to me by a Milwaukee bartender in an old dark wooden dive of a bar on the city waterfront. “I’ll take … Continue reading Lost History of American Bourbon: Knob Creek
Charlotte, North Carolina, has a “Confederate” history marker that I noticed while walking on my way into meetings at Bank of America headquarters. It is in need of major revision, if not removal. Let me start this story at the end. My searches online for more information eventually found a “NC Markers” program with an … Continue reading American Pro-Slavery History Markers
The mayor of Roanoke, Virginia on November 18 made the following argument to block refugees: I’m reminded that President Franklin D. Roosevelt felt compelled to sequester Japanese foreign nationals after the bombing of Pearl Harbor, and it appears that the threat of harm to America from Isis now is just as real and serious as … Continue reading US Restitution for Wartime Internment of Japanese-American Civilians