From 1961 to 1966, Martin Luther King Jr. wrote an annual essay for us. In 1965, he wrote about the power of demonstrations and the "legislation written in the streets." www.thenation.com/article/soci...
On my weekly show for KWBU, I’ve begun a series looking at how the Kennedy Center for the Arts in DC was created. Here’s the second installment. @baylorhistory.bsky.social @npr.org www.kwbu.org/show/david-a...
On my weekly show for KWBU @npr.org I’ve begun a series looking at how the Kennedy Center for the Arts in DC was created. Here’s the first installment. @baylorhistory.bsky.social www.kwbu.org/show/david-a...
The track of the Japanese carrier task force that struck US bases in and around Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. 84 years ago today. 🇺🇸
Back in the studio for a moment this morning at KWBU to record a show for next week. The Commission on Fine Arts, both today & 110 years ago, is the topic…. #UShistory
It’s a good story!
Charles Schultz, who served in the US Army during WWII, always remembered #VeteransDay #UShistory
My new biography of Navy Captain Alfred Thayer Mahan will be out after the first of the year from the Naval Institute Press. @baylorhistory.bsky.social
Big Max book cover.
In elementary school, my teacher told my mother I was “unteachable.” I was behind in every subject, including reading. Then I found this one book in the school library and connected with it, reading it hundreds of times. I made a career in reading, writing, and editing.That’s what a book can do.
Shocked. Shocked, I tell you
It feels good to hear someone else say it….