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Nope, Patrick Henry didn’t say that
More misquoting of “the Founders”: For America’s poster featuring a quote falsely claimed to be from Patrick Henry. The racial right wingers won’t tell you, but the painting i… more →
Millard Fillmore's Bathtub
Nope, Patrick Henry didn't say that
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wrote 1 month ago: More misquoting of “the Founders”: For America’s poster featuring a quote falsely … more →
Millard Fillmore: Still dead, still misquoted, 139 years later
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wrote 2 months ago: A wax likeness of Millard Fillmore’s head, appearing to be for sale for $950.00 back in 2007. … more →
Mermelstein: The man who forced us to remember
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wrote 9 months ago: I first posted a version of this back in August 2006. Since that time not much showed up on the int … more →
If it's an election year, it must be Bogus Quote Time! Patrick Henry on the Constitution
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wrote 9 months ago: Keep your collections of Jefferson, Madison, Lincoln, and “the founders” close to you, a … more →
Sourcing Thomas Jefferson quotes: "A country with no border . . ."
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wrote 9 months ago: A group calling itself “Patriotic Moms” claims to quote Thomas Jefferson: Thomas Jeffers … more →
One more time: Intelligent design is a pig that still doesn't fly
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wrote 9 months ago: Gee, I think I first posted this more than a year before the Pennsylvania decision. In any case, th … more →
Crank history assault on Alabama Public Television
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wrote 10 months ago: Highly disturbing news from the Southern Poverty Law Center: Alabama Public Television Apparently He … more →
How do we know that what is claimed about history is not bogus? Part 1
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wrote 1 year ago: Can we tell bogus history from real history? The straight answer is, it’s often difficult. Ele … more →
One more time: Recognizing bogus history
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wrote 1 year ago: 2012 is an election year, a time when we make history together as a nation. Potential turning point … more →
If Stalin said America is "a healthy body," why can't anyone find the source?
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wrote 1 year ago: Joseph Stalin would have to have been drunk to call the U.S. “healthy,” and to have comp … more →
Whenever she opens her mouth
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wrote 1 year ago: After the Republican presidential candidates’ debate, observers of the pageant opined that Mic … more →
"When we're telling whoppers about Obama and government, please don't pester us with the facts" Department
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wrote 1 year ago: First: American Elephant, a blog that insults pachyderms with its mendacious ways, stretches for wa … more →
Nope: Lincoln didn't say that
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wrote 1 year ago: Delightful little feature at Arizona Central (azcentral.com), “AZ Fact Check ’11, Keepin … more →
The Sarah Palin History Network 06/07/11
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wrote 1 year ago: The Sarah Palin History Network explains the signing of the Declaration of Independence. The Sarah P … more →
What sort of crazy is the warming denialist?
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wrote 2 years ago: I’ve got to stop looking over there. Goddard’s got a post up showing the great disregard … more →
Hawaii confirms Obama's eligibility (again); but who knows where Donald Trump really came from?
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wrote 2 years ago: NBC’s Michael Isikoff grubbed out the story to get Hawaii to confirm, once again, that Preside … more →
Quotes that will live in infamy: Michelle Bachmann, another history "F" ("shot heard 'round the world")
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wrote 2 years ago: In Concord, New Hampshire, on March 11 and 12, 2011, apparently testing to see whether that little s … more →
Lying for the Lord
wrote 2 years ago: During the Great Depression years of the 1930s there were the inevitable cliques of religious devote … more →
Historians: 'Stop the Texas SBOE evisceration of history and social studies'
wrote 3 years ago: In a series of articles at George Mason University’s History News Network, historians from Tex … more →
