by Jack Woodville London | Jul 5, 2011 | Articles
On July 5, 1932 veterans of World War I blocked the steps to the United States Capitol in futile attempts to lobby for the payment of the bonus that had been promised to them for enlisting in 1917 to serve in the war – fifteen years before. Most of them had served in... 
by Jack Woodville London | Jul 4, 2011 | Articles
How much did your freedom cost you today? A bag of fireworks? A flag put up alongside your front porch? An hour away from the barbeque to go watch the parade or hear a John Philips Souza concert? How do you really measure something like that? Perhaps the most honest... 
by Jack Woodville London | Jul 3, 2011 | Articles
In Paris, 1942, German authorities rounded up prominent Jews, including author Irène Némirovsky, who on July 3 wrote to her family from the internment camp at Pithiviers ‘please just let it be over.’ She and thousands of her fellows were murdered in... 
by Jack Woodville London | Jul 2, 2011 | Articles
“In the late summer of that year we lived in a house in a village that looked across the river and the plain to the mountains. In the bed of the river there were pebbles and boulders, dry and white in the sun, and the water was clear and swiftly moving and blue in the... 
by Jack Woodville London | Jul 1, 2011 | Articles
Four score and seven years after the Declaration of Independence, all that already had happened in United States history began to draw to a close. All that would happen in a changing nation would begin to unfold. With a single shot fired by Lieutenant Marcellus Jones...
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