Category Archives: Government & Politics
What Was it About George Washington…
… that made him “the indispensible man,” as described by historian James Thomas Flexner? And what was it about him that elicited these encomiums from his contemporaries upon his death? “First in war, first in peace, and first in … Continue reading
Posted in Books & Literature, Government & Politics, History
Tagged Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia, Declaration of Independence, First Continental Congress, George Washington, Joseph J. Ellis, Lexington and Concord, Lucius Quinctius Cincinnatus, Rev. Richard Allen, Secretary of State Thomas Jefferson
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What is it to be “Caucasian,” and…
…what and where is The Caucasus? When I was young I learned that the word “Caucasian” somehow applied to me and my family as types of humans who were “white,” or at least not “Negro” or “Oriental,” but that was … Continue reading
The Pavellas Perspective 