@WW2HistoryGal Edmund Morgan's 'The Birth of the Republic 1763-1789' is a good brief overview; Robert Middlekauf's 'The Glorious Cause' goes more in-depth. For a colorful, episodic narrative account, try A.J. Langguth's 'Patriots'.
I can’t think about Joe Biden without tearing up a little.
This man ran for president 5 times and lost then enthusiastically backed Obama and played the establishment number two to the greatest leader of his generation.
He wanted to run for president in 2016 but couldn’t because his son Beau died and he was too wracked with grief.
So he comes back in 2020, saves the country from Donald Trump and despite being a career centrist, proceeds to have the most pro-union, pro-working class administration in 80 years, pulls the country out of Covid, pulls us from the economic disaster of Trump into the best economy in the world.
He’s then betrayed by the media class and has to drop out because he’s too old for them. He steps down, for the good of the country, and immediately turns around and full-throatedly endorses the the first Black woman Presidential candidate finalist in U.S. history.
This man.
The Norwegian film THE ARCTIC CONVOY will be released in the U.S. on July 26. Based on true events, the film follows a cargo ship that is part of the ill-fated Convoy PQ 17 in 1942. Scenes were shot on the 1911 coal ship D/S Hestmanden which served in convoys during WWI and WWII.
@100YearsAgoNews In the following years, parishioners built a replica of the lost church, incorporating much of the fabric of the original, in West Philadelphia, where it still stands. https://t.co/MK3hTEjxtB