#sentenceoftheday #BeverlyGage #ThisLandIsYourLand #roadtrip #booksky Final chapter: "By exercising historical discipline & not stopping anywhere else, we (the author took her son along 4 this trip) made it all the way 2 Orange County, just south of Los Angeles, bfore nightfall. "#recommendedreading

4th #sentenceoftheday #BeverlyGage #ThisLandIsYourLand #UShistory #booksky #RosaParks Final chapter: "In 1955, the same year Rosa Parks made her stand in Montgomery, Alabama, Walt Disney opened a theme park in Anaheim, California."

Still another #sentenceoftheday from #ThisLandIsYourLand Ch. 11: "I wanted to spend the night in a nuclear missile silo." #roadtrip #BeverlyGage #booksky

Still another #sentenceoftheday #booksky #BeverlyGage #UShistory #roadtrip #ThisLandIsYourLand, Chapter 11: "Manzanar sits just on the other side of Death Valley, near the eastern foothills of the Sierra Nevada Mountains, on a flat dusty strip pressed up against snowcapped grandeur."

Another #Sentenceoftheday #booksky #ThisLandIsYourLand #BeverlyGage #UShistory #recommendedreading Chapter 11: "Even today, #Manzanar feels remote."

#sentenceoftheday #BeverlyGage #UShistory #LosAlamos #booksky Chapter 11: "The most impt day in Los Alamos history occurred on July 16, 1945, when Oppenheimer & his scientific team detonated a nuclear weapon in a remote desert grassland near Alamogordo, NM, a town of several thousand residents . . "

#sentenceoftheday #amreading #ThisLandIsYourLand #booksky #solotravel #roadtrip #USHistory #BeverlyGage #readmorewomen "I wandered down the hill and into the gathering, armed only with my notebook, camera, and voice recorder."

Gotta hand it to Beverly Gage: traveling solo, she flies to Atlanta on Confederate Memorial Day, rents a car, and drives to Stone Mountain to attend a rally of the Sons of Confederate Veterans. #amreading #ThisLandIsYourLand #BeverlyGage #USHistory #nonfiction #CivilWarhistory

Still #reading #ThisLandIsYourLand #BeverlyGage #booksky #roadtrip Ch. 7 is abt visiting #Deadwood: "Visit today & u can stay at the Historic Bullock Hotel, drink at the Wild Bill Bar, gamble at the Utter Place, go on a brothel tour, & watch live outdoor gunfights staged w/ actors & pistol blanks."

#BeverlyGage #SentenceoftheDay #roadtrip #ThisLandIsYourLand #booksky #solotravel Chapter 5: "Traveling alone as a middle-aged woman is an uneven experience: day after day of irrelevance & anonymity punctuated by the occasional moment of threat or contempt."

Yet another #UShistory #slavery #sentenceoftheday #booksky #ThisLandIsYourLand #BeverlyGage "In 1829, Mexico abolished slavery," something the Founders "had barely considered."

So happy to learn from #BeverlyGage that Monticello now has an exhibit on Sally Hemings, the slave who was Jefferson's concubine, who was the mother of six of his children (tho this book was written pre-Trump 2, so who knows) #UShistory #Monticello

Still reading #ThisLandIsYourLand by #BeverlyGage. I'm on Trip # 2: Mount Vernon & Colonial Williamsburg. Jamestown was "the first permanent English settlement in North America" (founded decades after the Spanish reached the Philippines) and the place where the 1st captive Africans arrived, in 1619.

What happened to the Oneida Nation? #BeverlyGage: The colonists' victory turned out to b their own loss. The Treaty of Canandaigua rewarded them w a vast swath of land in upstate NY, but over the next century, due to questionable land sales & settler threats, they were swindled down to 32 acres.

#amreading #UShistory #BeverlyGage #ThisLandIsUrLand #booksky "Martha Washington's great-granddaughter, Mary Custis, married Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee, who did as much as any man 2 tear apart the nat'l fabric Washington had tried 2 weave." Democracy needs defending, generation after generation.

#sentenceoftheday #BeverlyGage #ThisLandIsYourLand #booksky #USNationalParks #SaveOurParks "Despite recent budget cuts & political attacks, there's no traveling the country's historic sites without encountering the Park Service's fleet of good-hearted, army-green-clad, campaign-hat-wearing rangers."

#booksky #sentenceoftheday #amreading #UShistory #BeverlyGage #ThisLandIsYourLand #declarationofindependence The political theorist Daniel Allen has noted, "no more important sentence has ever been written" on the subject of equality than the Declaration's assertion that "all men are created equal."

#quoteoftheday #sentenceoftheday #amreading #ushistory #roadtrip #booksky #womenhistorians #wisdom #BeverlyGage #ThisLandIsYourLand "Americans can be patriots and critics, citizens and dissenters, all at once."

#booksky #sentenceoftheday #BeverlyGage #ThisLandIsYourLand #ushistory #womenhistorians "As a citizen, I love my country, & I hate when its patriotic symbols --the flag, the national anthem, the founding --are co-opted by narrow-minded people who claim that they & they alone are the true Americans."

Another #sentenceoftheday from #BeverlyGage #amreading #booksky #ThisLandIsYourLand #roadtrip: "I was taught early on that women had become equal too, and that 1972 was the best possible moment in all of human history for a little girl to be born."