Just when you thought the Trump administration had pandered about as much as they could to the far right lunatics who want to preserve statues and monuments to the American Confederacy (which LOST the Civil...
After the violence in Charlottesville, Virginia, there has been
a rash of protests against Confederate monuments all over the country. Today, there was one in my hometown of Huntsville, Alabama.
A group of 150 protesters showed up...
With all these Confederate statues being removed around the country, one must wonder where they will end up?
President Donald Trump described them as "beautiful monuments" that will be missed.
However, many people see them as racist...
It's usually a lazy comparison, let's be honest.
Ever since the dust thrown up by the 3.4 million tons of bombs that fell through the skies during WWII settled, Adolf Hitler has been something of a go...
Statues of Confederate generals and other notable figures of the side that lost the Civil War are coming down across the country. But one place where they still inexplicably stand is in the U.S. Capitol...
via Alice's website:
The Wikipedia article for the Harlem Renaissance is a great place to start learning about the time period and cultural movement that Alice was a part of in the beginning of her career.
From YouTube:
Alice Barker...
It has been suggested that President Trump's calls for "law and order" and his insistence on people pledging their personal loyalty to him is much like what other dictators in history have required of those...
Not long after he was elected president, Donald Trump told Chris Wallace that he reason he rarely bothers with intelligence briefings is simple:
"I don’t have to be told – you know, I’m, like, a smart...
There are several reasons that the Religious Right leaders are often so angry. They have gotten more extreme and angrier over the decades. Gone are the days where they tried to find the middle ground...
To celebrate Independence Day, National Public Radio (NPR) thought it would be a good idea to tweet out the every word of the Declaration of Independence, one of the two most important documents in American...
The Troubles began in the late 1960s and is usually thought to have ended in 1998. The root of the problem, however, stretches back centuries, not decades.
In 1534, Parliament passed the Act of Supremacy, a law...
The phrase "internment camp" calls to mind the Holocaust and imprisonment of Japanese Americans during World War II.
We like to believe they no longer exist, at least not in "civilized" democracies like our own.
However, support for...
For most of the last two-plus years, it appeared that Donald Trump's continued presence on the political scene was the strongest evidence to date that Gerald Ford's pardon of Richard Nixon had been a mistake....
The White House, located at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington, D.C., has housed all our presidents from President John Adams to the current president, Donald Trump.
The sitting president when the White House was constructed was President George...
Every day that passes in the Trump Presidency brings us closer to the potential for a Presidential impeachment.
The writers of the Constitution included impeachment as part of their system of checks and balances. They wanted...
Well, everyone knows we are not fond of President Donald Trump here at Liberal America. However, we are also not fond of the Republican "Saint" and former late president Ronald Reagan. Well, here's a comparison of...
On Tuesday, Ellen DeGeneres poked fun at President Trump's gross ignorance of U.S. history. Trump's recent comments about Andrew Jackson and The Civil War have sparked a lot of attention. Previously, Trump had also implied that...
You couldn't have invented the Nazis, not as literary constructs at any rate. Anyone trying to pitch the idea that a paramilitary organization that stitched skulls to their uniforms went 'mainstream legit,' would have been laughed...
Earlier this week, Donald Trump made a ridiculous statement about how President Andrew Jackson was angry he couldn't mediate the an end to the Civil War, even though Jackson died 16 freaking years before the...
As we learned on Monday, Donald Trump knows less about history than your average two-year-old. His comments regarding former president Andrew Jackson and the Civil War were so utterly ridiculous that comedians have been adding...
