Found History

by Tom Scheinfeldt

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Entries Tagged as 'Civil War'

John Bolton, John Stewart, Doris Kearns Goodwin

April 6th, 2007 · 1 Comment

I was cleaning out my TiVo last night, and I caught this odd trio debating the makeup of Lincoln’s cabinet. The phone is an especially nice touch. (Don’t blame me for the crappy video embed. My initial instinct was to pull this from YouTube. After several fruitless searches there, I finally remembered Viacom’s DMCA lawsuit [...]

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Tags: Civil War · Humor · Video

(Very Nearly) Fighting Over History in the Ohio Senate

July 25th, 2006 · No Comments

Despite media claims, polling data, and bureaucratic number crunching to the contrary, one of the main contentions of Found History is that people care deeply about history—sometimes to the point of fighting about it. For evidence of this you don’t need to go to Kashmir or Kurdistan or some other far off province where wars [...]

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Tags: Civil War · Politics · Video

Lincoln Billboard

January 4th, 2006 · No Comments

I noticed this billboard on I-84 in Danbury, CT on my way back from Christmas in Massachusetts. Since then, I’ve been kicking myself that I didn’t stop to get a picture for Found History. But now I’m glad I didn’t. As I learned in my online search for the billboard, it turns out to be [...]

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Tags: Ambient History · Civil War · Marketing