It was tough to be black in the U.S. in the era of “reconstruction” which some people frankly think of as a continuation—for African Americans—of…
History’s ironies never cease to amaze me. The same day that Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation, on January 1, 1863, the Homestead Act went…
If you’ve ever traveled through the southern Appalachian Mountains, you will immediately understand, even from the window of your car, that it would have been…
“Learn to do common things uncommonly well; we must always keep in mind that anything that helps fill the dinner pail is valuable.” – George…
"I believe the Great Creator has put oil and ores on this earth to give us a breathing spell. As we exhaust them, we…
https://www.homestead.org/homesteading-history/history-of-american-homesteading-part3/ Johnny Cash (1932-2003) attracted myths like a big, square-shouldered magnet. It’s true that he was born in a clapped-out town in northeast Arkansas, that…
It’s a story with a simple, but remarkable, beginning. In 1910 a black American entrepreneur joined forces with a legendary spokesman for black innovation…
