The flag of Bikini Atoll looks a lot like the American flag. It has the same red and white stripes. Five neat rows of white stars fill the dark blue box on the top left corner. The resemblance is intentional. Unlike the U.S. flag, with fifty stars that symbolize the fifty states, the Bikinian flag […]
A Time for Every Man to Stir
by Jack Kelly To celebrate Labor Day, author Jack Kelly shares with The History Reader why Thomas Paine, who famously penned the lines, “These are the times that try men’s souls…,” is quite possibly the working-class American founder of our time. Thomas Paine, copy...
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