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Shebby Lee
Jul 31, 20203 min read
Slavery in America
Did you know that thirteen of the first fifteen United States presidents owned slaves? This stat is quite well-known among historians, ...
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Shebby Lee
Mar 31, 20202 min read
Keep Breathing
I don’t have any verified homesteaders in my family tree – well, maybe a few – but it is always tempting in times like these to...
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Shebby Lee
Mar 1, 20203 min read
New Old Traditions
I belong to an alumni association which is more social club than academic, and was reminded recently of our penchant for creating what...
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Shebby Lee
Jan 1, 20203 min read
Literacy
As a historian I recognize that every generation thinks that the next is going to hell in a hand-basket. I personally was raised with...
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Shebby Lee
Mar 1, 20193 min read
What I Was Taught
It is embarrassing to open a sentence with, “I was taught”. I like to think of myself as a free-thinker even in my developmental...
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Shebby Lee
Jun 30, 20172 min read
History Envy
I have history envy. I doubt that it’s a very widespread malady, though possibly infectious. Therefore, in the public interest I have...
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Shebby Lee
Apr 30, 20172 min read
Tidewater
Two hundred years after the first Pilgrims, Dutch East Indian employees and English Cavaliers arrived on these shores (and began the...
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Shebby Lee
Apr 1, 20172 min read
Story Telling
Nobel and Pulitzer Prize-winning American novelist, Toni Morrison, has admitted in interviews that she writes the story she would like to...
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Shebby Lee
Jan 31, 20173 min read
The Learning Experience
We have certainly come a long way from the days when American schools began to introduce media – ever so cautiously – into the curriculum...
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Shebby Lee
Sep 30, 20164 min read
Democracy
When I was in junior high, my history teacher planted a trick question in a pop quiz that made a lasting impression on me. He asked us to...
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Shebby Lee
Aug 1, 20163 min read
Two Worlds Colliding
I was recently on the receiving end of a flattering and wholly unexpected accolade recognizing many decades of volunteer work promoting...
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Shebby Lee
May 1, 20163 min read
Seeing the Elephant
“Seeing the elephant”, I’m told, is a purely American phrase which gained popularity in the early 19th century. Coincidentally, the first...
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Shebby Lee
Mar 31, 20163 min read
Forgotten History
Andrew Carroll in his excellent new book (Here is Where) about what he calls America’s “forgotten history”, raises the question about the...
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Shebby Lee
Feb 29, 20163 min read
Time Travel
One of my ever-lasting passions is for movies which toy with the space-time continuum, or time travel. There are tons of them out there,...
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Shebby Lee
Oct 31, 20154 min read
American Heritage
My grandfather was an original subscriber to American Heritage Magazine, the classy hardbound history magazine written and edited by some...
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Shebby Lee
Feb 1, 20153 min read
Where History Happened
One of the hallmarks of our tours is that we offer the opportunity to walk where history happened. When you think about it, this really...
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Shebby Lee
May 31, 20143 min read
Happiness
I read recently that, according to a Netherlands travel study (plus followup research conducted by psychologist and consultant Shawn...
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Shebby Lee
Oct 31, 20133 min read
History Lite
If you have ever surfed the upper reaches of the cable channels in desperate search of semi-literate diversion, you have probably run...
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Shebby Lee
Feb 1, 20133 min read
Reading Lists
When we were first developing the Lewis & Clark Trail as a Vanishing Trails Expedition I kept track of all the books I read in my...
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Shebby Lee
Feb 28, 20114 min read
I’m Crazy About History
It probably won’t come as much of surprise that I am crazy about history. I don’t ever remember not being interested in everything...
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