New book explores the roots of the term “White trash”
Some landless whites in early America who survived war, workhouses, prostitution, and press gangs ditched their poverty wages and constricted lives and lit out for the territories.
Author Roy Speckhardt: “Can we create change through humanism?"
"Humanists understand that this is the only life we have, and this planet is the only place we have to live it."
This week in history: “Towards the future” honors Bastille Day
July 14th is Bastille Day, the holiday commemorating the fall of the Bastille prison at the beginning of the French Revolution in 1789.
