Articles by Sarah Cowgill

A funny name with a serious history: It comes from combining “June” and “nineteenth,” and it marks an important event in American history as the last enslaved people in the United States finally learned that they were free. In 2021,… Read More

There was a time when kids as young as eight or nine served this country in the battle. Some officially and with actual rank while others were tag-alongs. They participated in wars and skirmishes and lived lives that in today’s… Read More

The midnight ride of Paul Revere has been made immortal by poets and the authors of early American history. In Revolutionary War accounts, there is no mention of his borrowed horse’s name or breed – yet without this animal, the… Read More

Mother’s Day – It comes every year in America on the second Sunday of May. Its evolution took a long time, starting with ancient Greeks hosting festivals in honor of mother goddesses Rhea and Cybele. Other  celebrations took place in… Read More

In 2024, Aleysha Ortiz graduated with honors from Hartford Public High School in Connecticut and was accepted to the University of Connecticut, or UConn, as a freshman. She grew up as a first-generation English speaker after immigrating as a child… Read More

Indiana is the latest conservative state to fight back against inappropriate materials being available to students in classrooms and libraries. Republican legislators introduced House Bill 1195 to ban obscene content in school literature. To put it simply, this is a… Read More

The traditional thinking in America is that if we spend more money on something, it will turn out better. That is certainly the model for education, with schools often being ranked not by the performance of the students, but by… Read More

It was a date that, as promised by President Franklin Delano Roosevelt (FDR), lives on in infamy. On December 7, 1941, the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service executed a military strike on the United States Pacific Fleet at Pearl Harbor,… Read More

The Pilgrims and Native Americans did not invent Thanksgiving, but they embraced the concept and made it their own. Harvest festivals have been celebrated for thousands of years by many peoples, tribes, and nations in appreciation of the bounty produced… Read More

A hurricane of progressives and liberals is bearing down on southeastern and Appalachian states. The  high cost of living, burgeoning taxes, and strangling small business regulations in deep blue enclaves have prompted a great migration in America. Residents from Illinois,… Read More

Mona Goff was the younger sister of the only hero she had ever known: her brother. Marion Robert Goff was a young man who put on a military uniform in 1943 to go and fight in World War II. He… Read More

Since 1988, whoever won the presidential primaries and caucuses held on Super Tuesday in March (March 5, 2024) ended up the nominee for each political party. There is no day in the primary process with more states participating. And with… Read More