Old Fashioned Legal Advice
on April 10, 2018
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The Hayes Cabinet
on March 20, 2018
Rutherford B. Hayes was a deeply religious man and would sing gospel hymns with his family every night. Clearly out of danger of any major consequential disasters, the administration, cabinet, and even Vice President William Wheeler would often join in[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
United States of Blamerica
on February 23, 2018
Chapter: 2018 - February
Characters: Abraham Lincoln, Andrew Jackson, Barack Obama, Benjamin Harrison, Calvin Coolidge, George W Bush, George Washington, Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan, Santa Anna, Thomas Jefferson
Location: White House
Washington’s Birthday
Happy Washington’s Birthday! Enjoy your day off (for some) and pick up a presidential biography! Or better yet, a copy of the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 and wonder why we keep finding ourselves in this demeaning immigration feedback loop.
The Forgotten Know-Nothing Voter
on January 9, 2018
The Know-Nothing movement came to fruition in the mid-1850s as a secret society that believed that a Catholic invasion was taking over the United States through an influx of Irish and German immigrants. The name comes from when members stated[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Write-in Candidates
William Rufus King was the highest serving person from Alabama, having served as Vice President to Franklin Pierce. Fun fact! He was roommates with James Buchanan for over a decade and most of their letters to one another were destroyed[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Old Rough and Ready – Part One: The Rough and the Ready
on November 20, 2017
Chapter: 2017 - November
Characters: Abraham Lincoln, Harry S Truman, James K Polk, Millard Fillmore, Ulysses S Grant, Zachary Taylor
This week, Two Party Opera will be bringing you another mini history story – this time, condensing the entire life and legacy of Zachary Taylor into five comics, concluding with the marking of his 233rd birthday this Friday. So sit[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Off to the Ditch
on November 9, 2017
111 years ago on November 9, 1906, Theodore Roosevelt (sort of) became the first sitting President to visit another country.
Failure to Compromise
Chief of Staff John Kelly mentioned in an interview this week that the Civil War was caused because of the “lack of ability to compromise.” Look, I have what some may consider more nuanced opinions over the Civil War, but[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
