Remembering the Great American Jackalope
In the late 1970s, the American jackalope was a mythical creature that scared and thrilled us all.
Income Tax: Whose Idea Was It?
In 2024, Americans will pay a federal income tax that ranges from 10%-37% of one’s income. This is a continuation of a federal income tax tradition that started about 160 years ago at the beginning of the Civil War.
The Madoff Scheme
On June 29, 2009, Federal Judge Denny Chin sentence Bernard (Bernie) L. Madoff to 150 years in prison for the orchestration of history’s largest Ponzi scheme. Over about 20 years, Madoff had swindled approximately $65 billion from almost 41,000 people.
The Stonewall Uprising
The year is 1969. In Greenwich Village, on Christopher Street, sits a dingy, Mafia-owned bar serving bootlegged liquor in dirty glasses. Though the Stonewall Inn may not have looked like a haven, it was, in fact, a safe place for a large group of marginalized New Yorkers.
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Just a Regular, Old History Buff
Hi there! Welcome to Sharing History! My name is Jenn and I am a marketing executive by day and a history blogger by night. I have a degree in history, but found a career in business quickly after graduating from college so I left the fun world of history behind while I was raising my two children and building my career.
During the 2020 Covid-19 pandemic, I found myself working from home full time and simultaneously helping my high school-aged son deal with remote learning. He was taking US History at the time and over the course of the pandemic, we also tackled a US Government class. This experience rekindled my love of history and inspired me to start this blog.
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Exciting….Just finished The Warmth of Other Sun by Isabel Wilkerson….non fiction….beautifully written narrative about the Great Migration of people from the south to cities in the north and west after Reconstruction. Looking forward to following your history blog.
I suspect I’m more hardcore than the postings on this site. I have a Master’s degree from Stephen F. Austin State University in Nacogdoches Tx but ended up working 42 years for the Social Security Administration. I never lost my love for the subject and have a personal library of about 2 thousand books although about 2/3’s are in storage in boxes in the loft of my storage building. I’m no satisfied if I’m not reading one and probably still have at least 50 to be read but will acquire more. At 77 I probably will never catch up but I don’t care.