Another Thing I Did Before: The Taft House in Cincinnati

On the same trip as our exciting visit to the Creation Museum back in March, Isaac and I also hit up the William Howard Taft National Historic Site, featuring a tour of President/Chief Justice Taft’s childhood home and a museum that had animatronic Taf…

 
Richard Nixon: I think we all know too much already

If I had a mansion and an unlimited government budget, I’d build a bowling alley in my house too. So impeach me!

Richard Milhous Nixon was one of four sons born to a Quaker family in California in 1913. A sickly child, he was not a great athlete, bu…

 
Grover Cleveland: That Mustache Is Hiding More than a Tumor!

Young Cleves: dapper.
America’s 22nd and 24th president Stephen Grover Cleveland was born the fifth of nine children to a Presbyterian minister and his wife in New Jersey in 1837. He never went as Stephen as an adult because Sesame Street didn’t exis…

 
Jimmy Carter will beat us all to peanut heaven

Several months ago, I did research on former United States President James Earl Carter! I never wrote a post. Now I will do so. My last presidential post was many moons ago with my write-up of Millard Fillmore. There aren’t that many left, but if I act…

 
They don't actually wash the lions, you guys.**

There is an atrociously large gallery of more sparkly hugging animals and lots of sexy Native appropriation where this came from. You’re welcome.
Inspired by a conversation in my history class last night where a discussion arose regarding the origins o…

 
Millard Fillmore: Lucky(?) President Number 13

 Majestic statue of Fillmore in Buffalo, NY. Does it look like he’s “presenting” to anyone else?
You guuuyys, it’s time to write about Millard Fillmore. Because I haven’t yet. And also because Matty voted for him way back when I polled you guys. T…

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