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“The World’s First Christmas Stamp” Tuesday, December 22nd, 2009

Guest Blog by Tom Tarabicos - “The World’s First Christmas Stamp”

Every November the United States Postal Service, along with most Christian …

Guest Blog by Tom Tarabicos Tuesday, August 25th, 2009

The Circa History Guild is a wonderful link to the unveiling of the past. Not only does the website reveal truths about …

Calvin Wednesday, May 13th, 2009

by William Potter

In the year 2000 many polls were taken and many articles written regarding the individual that historians considered the most …

Inspired Wednesday, July 16th, 2008

Around 1570 a young scholar by the name of Richard Hakluyt, while on a visit to his cousin, a lawyer in the Inns of …

Lex Rex Friday, July 11th, 2008

In 1644 a book was published in Scotland that would have gotten its author hanged for high treason in 1661 had he not died of …

Descendant Wednesday, July 9th, 2008

From about 1660 to 1688, the English king tried to force Anglicanism on Scotland. The trouble with that of course, was that Scotland was Presbyterian …

Scotland Monday, July 7th, 2008

I have just arrived home from a two week history tour of Scotland. I was one of the historians leading about 15 families on what …

An Immigrant Monday, June 16th, 2008

“This is a modest token of my gratitude and sincere thanks to the United States, a great nation whose hospitality and spirit of freedom and …

To Resist is Human Friday, April 25th, 2008

By Collin Box
When I was in middle …