by Mike Purdy | Jun 21, 2015 | Resources
First, what is Pinterest anyway? It’s a social media website that offers free sharing of photos. It’s newer and less famous that Facebook and Twitter as social media sites. Obama’s Twitter Followers: Speaking of Twitter, did you know that on May...
by Mike Purdy | Jun 17, 2015 | Uncategorized
In my blog posting of June 16, 2015 on Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address, I announced a contest. I will give away one free copy of the newly published book “Gettysburg Replies: The World Responds to Abraham Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address.” Free Copy...
by Mike Purdy | Jun 16, 2015 | Abraham Lincoln, Speeches
In his now famous Gettysburg Address that he delivered on November 19, 1863, President Abraham Lincoln misjudged the significance of his comments in dedicating a cemetery for the thousands of Union soldiers who had died at the Battle of Gettysburg just four and a half...
by Mike Purdy | Jun 14, 2015 | John F. Kennedy
A one minute video clip of President John F. Kennedy was finally made public after 54 years. The video clip of JFK was filmed on an 8 mm camera owned by a U.S. Army employee who was on hand in Paris on June 2, 1961 as the president visited the Supreme Headquarters...
by Mike Purdy | Jun 7, 2015 | Benjamin Harrison, Grover Cleveland, White House
In the election of 1888, Republican Benjamin Harrison evicted Grover Cleveland from the White House, not realizing of course, that he would suffer the same fate in just four years. In the election of 1892, Cleveland made an unprecedented presidential comeback,...