New Deal-era Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins once recounted a conversation she had with Franklin Roosevelt about how feasible it was to create a government-administered system of social insurance for the elderly. “Well, do you think it can be done?”…
U.S. Constitution
The rural revolt led by Daniel Shays in western Massachusetts had been suppressed by February, 1787. Nonetheless, the notoriety of the event served as a catalyst for the constitutional convention which assembled later that year in Philadelphia.
Shays’ Rebellion was…
In the French Revolution the ancient Cathedral of Notre Dame in Paris was given over to pagan rites for years. But eventually French Catholics were able to re-sanctify the Cathedral — with unlikely help from Napoleon Bonaparte. I cite this…
