In a first attempt at using Chat GPT, I asked it to do the Gettysburg Address in the form of a rap song. This is the result. The feelings are mixed about this technology, but I cannot say that the machine did not give it a good college try. Sure, here’s a possible version of…
Author: The Historical Notionist
Full Faith and Credit – a Post-Colonial Commentary
The following is a review of an excerpt from a book titled Commentaries on the Constitution by Joseph Story, Boston, 1833. This text was written as part of a volunteer audio visual presentation featuring Thomas Paine for Patriot Lessons TV, recorded in 2015. My name is Gregory Roth. I am a practicing probate and estates…
A World of Paine
The following is a review of a chapter title A World of Paine, in the book, Revolutionary Founders: Rebels, Radicals, and Reformers in the Making of the Nation by various authors, published in 2011. This text was written as part of a volunteer audio visual presentation featuring Thomas Paine for Patriot Lessons TV, recorded in…
Martha Washington: The First First Lady
The following is a review of the book Dames and Daughters of Colonial Days written by Geraldine Brooks and published in the year 1900. This text was written as part of audio visual presentation featuring Martha Washington for Patriot Lessons TV, recorded in 2015. Dames and Daughters is a book of nine chapters profiling nine different…
38th Annual Kalamazoo Living History Show
March 16-17, 2013 (Kalamazoo)—A stately President Lincoln walked past me, surveying a table of books – surely some written about him. A stout gentleman in a late 18th century wig and waistcoat strode proudly through the ever-gathering crowds. I almost ran headlong into a commanding officer of Her Majesty’s Army of the War of 1812….
Historic vs. Historical
Historic or Historical? This blog could have been named the The Historic Notionist. However, that would be presumptuous. The two words historic and historical are often interchanged but do not mean the same thing. In fact, the words’ proper usages are grammatically distinct. Yet, a quick consult to the a well known and portable reference…