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The Price of Public Education

1/29/2014

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Mississippi’s first year running a public school system cost the state more money than all other government activities combined.   

John Hope Franklin, Reconstruction: After the Civil War (Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1961), 140.  

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Twain the Failed Financier

1/22/2014

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Mark Twain lost thousands of dollars financing unpopular and unsuccessful inventions such as a hand grenade style fire extinguisher and a steam pulley. 

Philip McFarland, Mark Twain and the Colonel: Samuel L. Clemens, Theodore Roosevelt, and the Arrival of a New Century (Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 2012), 249.
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Presidential Elections Getting Sunnier

1/15/2014

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From 1952 to 2002, New York, Ohio, and Pennsylvania lost a total of 36 electoral votes in presidential elections while California, Florida, and Texas gained a total of 50 electoral votes. 

Philip Jenkins, Decade of Nightmares: The End of the Sixties and the Making of Eighties America (New York: Oxford University Press, 2006), 79.

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A Spoonful of Sugar Helps the Deals Go Down

1/8/2014

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On the Lewis and Clark Expedition, William Clark earned a reputation as a great medicine man among the Indians even though some of his “cures” were really deceptive ploys used to build good relations. 

Landon Y. Jones, William Clark and the Shaping of the West (New York: Hill and Wang, 2004), 136.

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Punishment for Taking a Party Favor

1/1/2014

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A man who was caught trying to steal some tea during the Boston Tea Party was stripped and beaten by onlookers. 

Benjamin Woods Labaree, The Boston Tea Party (New York: Oxford University Press, 1964), 144-45. 

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