I'm the new Feature Writer for American History.
I am transferring from transportation history where I have been writing for over a year. I find it very approriate that I got my final notice of this transfer on July the 4th. Like Thomas Jefferson and John Adams who both managed to fight illnesses until they saw one more July Fourth I hold this day to be very important to America and Americans.
It's not just about fireworks displays and picnics, it's also about remembering the hard fight our forefathers made to win our Rights. It's about Life, Liberty, and Property; it's about Liberty and Justice for all. It's about all that and so much more that it would be impossible to put it all into a short blog. It really is America's Birthday, and although our great country may be well over 200 years old it is still a great country. There may be things I think have changed for the worse since the days of Jefferson, Adams, Washington, Franklin, Madison, and their contemporaries, but America is my home, and I hope to do her justice when I write about her history. I may point out a few things I think are shortcomings from time to time, but I will always be writing as a proud American Citizen.
I notice that the two articles I had previously written for American History are on my new front page. They are both Southern History, and both somehwat controversial from the political correctness point of view. I wrote them because I felt they touched on issues not then being addressed. I hope no one gets the impression that I am somehow ideologically promoting a South that is long gone. I am a Southerner, and I am trying to understand that part of America's past, but it is by no means my only interest. I do have fairly long college papers on both of these topics, but my interests tend to range widely, and my research focuses on new areas as new ideas or information catch my interest.
