September 25, 2014 By Maryanne Datesman Leave a Comment With elections coming, there is a lot of talk about the women’s vote and how to secure it. One party claims that the other party is waging a war on women and that women had better vote with them or … Continue Reading about Suffering from […]
Maryanne Datesman gives an overview of the Vintage American Ways website and shares her experience writing American Ways: An Introduction to American Culture with her two co-authors. She explains the unique paradigm of six basic American cultural values they introduced and developed in the book. WITH MARYANNE DATESMAN, THE FOUNDER OF VINTAGE AMERICAN WAYS. MARYANNE, AS […]
With elections coming, there is a lot of talk about the women’s vote and how to secure it. One party claims that the other party is waging a war on women and that women had better vote with them or … Continue Reading about Suffering from Women’s Suffrage →
A brief intro to The Pledge of Allegiance [Video: 1m 16s] A brief history of The Pledge of Allegiance [Video: 7m 17s] You’ve Already Learned If you’ve watched our seven-minute film, you now know that the Pledge of Allegiance was written in 1892 for the National School Celebration of the 400th anniversary of Columbus Day. […]
October 1, 2015 By Maryanne Datesman Leave a Comment This article was written in 1914, at the beginning of World War I. News dispatches were describing battles taking place in Europe and there must have been some confusion about the names of these … Continue Reading about Battles That Have Two Names: It’s a Matter […]
September 25, 2014 By Maryanne Datesman Leave a Comment With elections coming, there is a lot of talk about the women’s vote and how to secure it. One party claims that the other party is waging a war on women and that women had better vote with them or … Continue Reading about Suffering from […]
September 25, 2014 By Maryanne Datesman Leave a Comment With elections coming, there is a lot of talk about the women’s vote and how to secure it. One party claims that the other party is waging a war on women and that women had better vote with them or … Continue Reading about Suffering from […]
September 11, 2015 By Maryanne Datesman Leave a Comment We can all remember exactly what we were doing when we heard—and saw—the horrendous events that occurred 16+ years ago today. Those events are burned into our collective psyche as we reflect back on … Continue Reading about Reflections on 9/11: Timeless, Inevitable Questions about War […]
October 1, 2015 By Maryanne Datesman Leave a Comment This article was written in 1914, at the beginning of World War I. News dispatches were describing battles taking place in Europe and there must have been some confusion about the names of these … Continue Reading about Battles That Have Two Names: It’s a Matter […]
September 11, 2015 By Maryanne Datesman Leave a Comment We can all remember exactly what we were doing when we heard—and saw—the horrendous events that occurred 16+ years ago today. Those events are burned into our collective psyche as we reflect back on … Continue Reading about Reflections on 9/11: Timeless, Inevitable Questions about War […]
October 1, 2015 By Maryanne Datesman Leave a Comment This article was written in 1914, at the beginning of World War I. News dispatches were describing battles taking place in Europe and there must have been some confusion about the names of these … Continue Reading about Battles That Have Two Names: It’s a Matter […]
September 17, 2015 By Maryanne Datesman Leave a Comment What do you think of when someone says they are going to talk about the “culture” of a country? Do you think of art, classical music, ballet, and literature? Or do you think about food, hip-hop … Continue Reading about What do you mean, Culture? → […]
September 12, 2015 By Maryanne Datesman Leave a Comment Boys’ Page for October: “When You Are Lost in the Woods” The Youth’s Companion October 1, 1914, p. 512 Few persons become lost in the woods when the sun is shining; but on a cloudy day, or in a … Continue Reading about When You Are […]
June 22, 2017 By Maryanne Datesman Leave a Comment A Special Labor Day Message… Hard work—it’s one of our basic American values, the price we pay to get ahead, to capture the American Dream of a better life. But do our young people really have a … Continue Reading about Beware of Bumptious Fritterers! → […]