Dr. Martin Luther King Day

This weekend I finished the Hillsdale College free online course titled, “Civil Rights in American History.” I didn’t plan the completion to coincide with the observance of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day, but that is how it fell out. I really enjoyed the course. In...

1801 – The Barbary Wars Begin

On August 1, 1801 Lieutenant Andrew Sterrett, in command of the U.S. Navy frigate Enterprise, defeated the corsair Tripoli in an engagement off the North African coast. In the engagement, the Tripoli lost sixty out of eighty crew members, while the Enterprise...