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 attorney in Novi,…
Category: 19th Century (1800s)
The Gettysburg Address
Annotate November 19, 1863 Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated,…
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….