Born of war, normalized by time Before the Civil War, the idea of a federal income tax would have struck most Americans as unnecessary at best, dangerous at worst.The federal […]
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Temporary Measures: From Taxes to Tariffs
How ‘crisis’ policies become permanent—and why history reminds us to notice In moments of crisis, nations rarely believe they are making permanent choices. They speak instead in the language of […]
Love, Separation, and Survival in the Early 19th Century
Valentines Written in Ink, Faith, and Endurance In the early nineteenth century, love was shaped as much by circumstance as by feeling. Distance, weather, illness, and war were not occasional […]
From Blockades to Blockades: Echoes of 1902 in Today’s Venezuela
History has a way of reminding us that the world we live in is built on long sheets of precedent. As a writer who loves the layers beneath moment-to-moment headlines, […]
Milestones – High Point University
The birth of your first child rocks your world and we quickly settle into the joy of parenthood. But it’s when your last child fledges the nest that your world […]
