17 Minutes Of History

17 Minutes of History #29--A Battle Called New Orleans and a Coon Ass Story

A look at the most meaningless battle in American history and some foolishness that went with it 

17 Minutes of History--#28

Culture and sophistication born in the War of 1812

17 Minutes of History #27--Leading to the War of 1812

How much history can repeat itself, admit it or not

17 Minutes of History #26--On Holidays

Our 11 or 12 holidays and what we have done to them in our own Dark Ages

17 Minutes of History #25--Hamilton, Burr and Reality

A whole lot of something you never knew made it the way things are today

17 Minutes of History #24--Making Sense of Amendments

A visit to the 2nd and 13th that make sense, if you read them

17 Minutes of History #23--Amendment Number One

A look at what was said in 1789 and how it is spoken today

17 Minutes of History #22--The Constitution, Part 1

How perfection got corrupted over 250 years

17 Minutes of History #21--Linking to one particular SBO and you

The death of an era right under your own nose that will never come back

17 Minutes of History #20--POW Policy

How American prisoner of war policy began to be shaped by a very pregnant Amish woman once upon a time in Pennsylvania