A War Without Sacrifice

My latest article discusses the efforts by the federal government to shield the public from the true costs of the "War on Terror." (Click here for link.)

President's Obama Legacy

In my latest article, I argue that President Obama may be judged more by his performance in his second term than in his first. Now that the economy appears to be improving, will he be enough of a leader to ask Americans to make sacrifices? (Click here for the article on Hubpages.)

When Recessions Come, Who is to Blame?

In this article, I discuss our human tendency to look for a scapegoat when things go badly. But in an economy as complex as ours, simplistic answers don't make a lot of sense. (Click here for the link to my Hubpages article.)

Slavery, Fossil Fuels, and the Status Quo

In my latest new article, I compare our society's dependence on slavery in the early 19th century to our dependence on fossil fuels today. Click here for link.

I published a Book!

I have neglected this blog lately. This is partly because I have shifted most of my blogging to "Hubpages.com."  (See link at the top.) But it is also because I have been hard at work compiling my first published book. It is a collection of essays, covering all of the major topics of American history, which connects the events of the past to the United States today. Essentially, is it an attempt to do in written form what I have been doing for eleven years as a community college instructor.

This started as blog posts that I originally published here and/or at Hubpages. If you click the link below, it will take you to an article that I wrote on Hubpages which describes the book in more detail:

A description of the book, including links to where it can be bought.

Here is a link my book at Amazon.com where it can be purchased:

Amazon link

Thanks for reading. I hope to visit some of my old Blogger friends soon.

Facing up to the Consequences of our History

A little article about the lingering financial crisis. (Click here for link.)

The problem of bigness

Do people who work for corporations promote the interests of the organization or of themselves? (Click here for link.)