Bruce's History Lessons
- Bruce's History Lesson: Constantine’s conversion key to Christianity today
- The Emperor Constantine, the first Christian ruler of the Roman empire and the man who ended the persecution of Christianity, died this week (May 22) in 337, having lived a life that would change the world.
Born a pagan, as were the vast majority of... Full story
- Bruce's History Lessons: Spring cleaning 2012
- By Bruce Kauffmann/For the Appeal-Democrat
- Time for my annual "Spring Cleaning" column, in which I address reader issues and answer "Frequently Asked Questions" (FAQs).
Issue #1: My one reader issue this year is still the same. I appreciate the volume of reader mail I get, and I pride myself... Full story
- Bruce's History Lessons: The long, lost, last amendment
- By Bruce Kauffmann/For the Appeal-Democrat
- Our very last constitutional amendment — the 27th Amendment — was ratified this week (May 7) in 1992 when Michigan became the 38th state to approve it. Call it the long, lost, last amendment because it was originally proposed 203 years ea... Full story
- Bruce's History: The Haymarket Square Massacre
- By Bruce Kauffmann/For the Appeal-Democrat
- Tne unhappy byproduct of the Industrial Age was the growing discontent of workers, who constantly agitated for better pay and more humane working conditions. In America, for example, a strike for an eight-hour work day on May 1, 1886, drew 350,000 wo... Full story
- Bruce's History: Cleveland observes Abe Lincoln's funeral
- By Bruce Kauffmann/For the Appeal-Democrat
- The death of America's greatest president, Abraham Lincoln, resulted in an outpouring of national mourning, the apex of which came in late April of 1865 when a specially outfitted train carried his body on a thirteen-day, 1,700-mile, eleven-city fune... Full story
- Bruce's History: Letter from a Birmingham Jail
- By Bruce Kauffmann/For the Appeal-Democrat
- This week (April 16) in 1963, Martin Luther King Jr., sat in a jail cell in Birmingham, Ala., having been arrested for violating a trumped-up court order that prohibited him and his followers from conducting various protest activities, most of which ... Full story
- Bruce's History: Jefferson's flights of fancy
- By Bruce Kauffmann/For the Appeal-Democrat
- Thomas Jefferson, born this week (April 13) in 1743, is — deservedly so — in the pantheon of American heroes. His Declaration of Independence is the greatest "Mission Statement" ever penned and is one of the three documents on which our n... Full story
