Under the sub heading of “did you know that?”: “The original Cadillac logo was based on the family arms of Antoine de La Mothe, Sieur de Cadillac, a minor aristocrat who founded Detroit in 1701. Mr. Cadillac’s own heraldry appears to have been borrowed or concocted, by some accounts.”
Since its origination, the Cadillac logo has [...]

In a recent commencement speech at Harvard, Former Supreme Court Justice David Souter took the opportunity to explain the role of Judges in interpreting the U.S. Constitution, as he understands it.  One can see this speech as an explanation of a judicial point of view different than that espoused by Justices Scalia and Thomas.  They often [...]

(This author will confess that he loves these kind of discoveries!)  It was known that on the back of one draft of the Constitution was another text by James Wilson, but that version stopped abruptly.   The rest of that early draft has now been “discovered” and may be placed with the other drafts of the [...]

In our history there are many times that President’s attempt to create jobs with infrastructure projects.  President Obama is thinking that he may need to be the next to do so.  “As historian Mark Rose has noted, in the mid-1930s, almost $3 billion, then a good share of an annual federal budget, was poured into [...]

I attended a wonderful event this weekend.  The North FW Historical Society had a tour of Oakwood Cemetery, which is located on the north side of downtown.  It is located on a hill overlooking the Trinity River.  It is a lovely place with a wonderful view of the skyline of downtown over the curving river.  [...]

“The secrets of a lost city that may have inspired one of the world’s most enduring myths – the fable of Atlantis – have been brought to light from beneath the waters off southern Greece.  Explored by an Anglo-Greek team of archaeologists and marine geologists and known as Pavlopetri, the sunken settlement dates back some [...]

A new book which provides fresh details of Porsche’s Nazi connections is being put out at the time Porsche is celebrating its 100th year anniversary.  “German historian Ulrich Viehover, who specializes in the auto industry, easily proved that the company was much too large to call itself a “small plant.” In its archives Viehover found [...]