Recent content by Terp152

Morgan's rifle corps were certainly known for their sharpshooting prowess, especially against British officers. There were others. I appreciate your comments/perspective.

I can name two to start with, both being extensively interviewed in the series without being woke/anti-American unlike K Burns. Rick Atkinson (Pulitzer Prize for his WWII volume) has the first two books of his trilogy on the War released. And Joseph Ellis, author of quite a few books on the...

History repeats itself at Ole Miss. In 1998, Tommy Tuberville said "They'll have to carry me out of here in a pine box", in reference to not leaving to coach at another school. Less than a week later, it was announced that he was departing for Auburn. He left Ole Miss before their bowl game...

Candy is a good analogy for JFK, the White House was like one big candy store for him.

Thankful we have Second Amendment rights. A British IT consultant says he lived through a dystopian nightmare after being arrested for posting photos of himself holding firearms during a trip to the United States. People in the UK filed complaints with the police after feeling threatened.

Every picture is a great representation of the Old West.

Never could conjugate

Nice figures but "left shoulder arms?"

Ich verstehen.

Getting charged $1,200 on my credit card for a limousine service that I did not use. I once had a cc that asked me to confirm a purchase for gas whenever out of my local area. But didn't hear a word when someone made a $10K charge (yes that's with a K).

Having read many books on the subject, I was looking fwd to this series very much but sorely disappointed. The denigration of colonial Americans in general and our Founding Fathers in particular was distracting to say the least. I had to force myself to watch the last two episodes and became...

I visited the Berghof site in 1980. You could still peer into an opening in the foundation and see the basement. All I saw at that time was concrete walls. Thanks for posting.

Schiff is a Pulitzer Prize winner for a bio of Mrs. Vladimir Naboko (most of us whom never heard of). She also wrote a bio of Samuel Adams.

You should also read about the war on the rabbits which also included fencing and "mass destruction."

Some of those I had not heard of but sound interesting. I often read books that are primary references of books I particularly like. So I have just ordered Letters of Eliza Wilkinson, mentioned during the series, a SC low country resident during the British occupation and initially pro-British...