Amid the tremendous challenges facing the United States at the moment, it's useful to recall the origination of the now-familiar holiday. Abraham Lincoln established it in the dark hours of the Civil …
Mahatma Gandhi | First They Ignore You
What Would Roosevelt Do?
Steven Hellem, Annapolis Maryland, and James Strock wrote this piece for Mike Causey's respected Federal Report of the Federal News Service. ### Perhaps no leader from American history has more …
John F Kennedy | The Art of Becoming
Why does the memory of John F. Kennedy exert such an enduring hold on the imaginations of so many Americans? There are, to be sure, numerous factors that conjoin memorably in our thinking of his …
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13 Leadership Lessons World War I
The Great War of 1914-18—it became the First World War only in tragic retrospect—was the seminal event of the 20th century. Its after-effects reverberate in our day. One might argue that the 20th …
Benjamin Franklin Admonition, 17 September 1787
Sept. 17, 1787, is the date on which the United States Constitution was read and engrossed in final form at the constitutional convention. Benjamin Franklin, then 81 years old, was too frail to make a …
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