To me the death of JFK started a new era in America. It seems that before his death Americans trusted and respected our leaders. You did not always like and agree with them, but respected the office. Americans also seemed to have a basic trust in America. The idea that we were being told the … Continue reading Class Notes →

In studying the Seventh Day Adventists Rene Noorbergen wrote about Ellen White, “Convinced through her prophecies that the world was rapidly approaching its end, she led and counseled a large segment of the religious world of her time into a deeper spiritual and social awareness. But she did more than that. Her spiritual, medical and … Continue reading Class Notes →

While the 1939 movie Gone with the Wind is one of the greatest cinematic masterpieces of all time, it also did more to push the Lost Cause Myth than any other movie ever made. In the movie the slaves were happy and loyal, and the Southern cause was just, even if that cause was slavery. … Continue reading Class Notes →

Shipp’s last chapter looked closely at the 1916 General Conference of the LDS Church. The prophet Joseph F. Smith, nephew of Joseph Smith knew that things were greatly changing for the Church. She wrote, “this was a sermon that the Saints very much needed to hear, since the behavioral boundary that had once separated the … Continue reading Class Notes →

JFK’s flexible response to the Cold War did not start strong. He inherited a plan from Ike that was supposed to take care of the problem in Cuba by having arming Cuban refugees and sending them back to invade Cuba at the Bay of Pigs. JFK was told the Cuban people hated Castro and would … Continue reading Class Notes →

Today we tend to think of the Republicans as the more militant party, but in many ways during the Cold War it was the Democrats. It was under Truman’s administration that the Democrats lost China which led to many claiming that Democrats were soft on communism. No one questioned Ike’s stance against communism, or his … Continue reading Class Notes →