Wars are often responsible for medical and scientific advances, and the Civil War drove the need for a new science: an improved way to handle the dead...
We never want to see our government encounter a disaster where they are so ill-equipped to handle a bad outcome. The task in front of us is to identify anything that could be the next "BP disaster" and warn against it.
The problem with articles about women's suffrage is that "were given" is dead-on inaccurate; even the wording, "got the vote" does not begin to explain the battle that women suffragists waged in order for women to vote.
Women's Equality Day is marked today, August 26, and it will likely be celebrated this year in much the same way it was celebrated in 1920--that is to...