Richmond grew up in Portage County, Ohio, and graduated from James A. Garfield High School in Garrettsville, Ohio, class of 1979, where he won the John Philip Sousa award and where his mother still lives. He also played a key part in the creation of the Garrettsville Community Players, directing, choreographing, and lending his creative and artistic vision to many of its shows in its beginning. He attended Kent State University in Ohio in the late 1980s, where he co-authored a number of musicals, and wrote a musical score to william Shakespeare's Othello. Read More...
Spiro Agnew is remembered for pleading no contest to tax-evasion charges related to bribery and resigning as Richard Nixon’s vice president. But his signal political achievement was igniting a campaign that endured for more than four decades painting the mainstream media as biased, liberal and elitist.
Anti-media sentiment had long been bubbling on the right when Agnew targeted what were then the Big Three television networks for representing “a concentration of power over American public opinion unknown in history. Read More...
In this week in military history, we explore the Battle of Fort Donelson which took place in the Western Theater of the American Civil War in 1862.
The battle was part of a series of battles meant to cut Confederate supply lines and stop river traffic in support of the Confederacy.
At this point in the Civil War, General Ulysses S. Grant and other Union commanders realized that they needed to control the major rivers in the western theatre to defeat the Confederacy. Read More...
