History in the Raw (The bare facts of history that you don't get to read very often)

My name is Jack Stanley, I have studied history for many years. This blog is about history in a more raw view, not over done. I often use original materials to bring a historic event or story to life or an interview I may have done with the person mentioned. If you cook a vegetable too long it loses much. The same can be said of many histories. They are the history of the history written before it. Over done history. THIS IS HISTORY IN THE RAW. Comments send to phonograph78@hotmail.com

Tuesday, July 31, 2007

Thomas Hart Benton's two volume set on 30 years in the Senate. Printed in 1854-56. These are from the library of Congressman Augustus Cutler 1827-1897

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Thomas Hart Benton (1782-1858) The spines of the book showing the offical seal of the USA in the 1850's. The set as it looks on its side...
Friday, July 27, 2007

John Adams view on how posterity would view American independence and the revolutionary war

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John Adams had no allusions as to how he would be remembered historically. He knew that Jefferson would get the sole credit for the Declarat...
Wednesday, July 25, 2007

The Simpson's ..A great historical fact that is seen in the phone style of Mr. Burns

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Mr Burns who always answers the phone with Hoy Hoy! Homer Simpson with Edison who invented what we all use on the phone Mr Burns in the Simp...

Funeral Blues..... A touching piece of poetry by W.H. Auden

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W.H. Auden Funeral Blues Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone, Prevent the dog from barking with a juicy bone, Silence the pianos and ...
Tuesday, July 24, 2007

Turtle ships from Korea. Did Korea make the first ironclad fighting vessels? .....What ship was the first true and total ironclad?

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A life sized model of a Korean turtle ship from the 16th century. At least an idea of what it looked like. It was developed by Admiral Yi fr...

Jussi Björling ..(1911-1960) ..Perhaps the greatest operatic tenor of the 20th century

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He was a great singer..Maybe great is too weak a word for him..He was an amazingly gifted and unique singer. There have been but few like hi...
Monday, July 16, 2007

Next time you walk by the New York Public Library..You can imagine that right at that spot was the Croton Reservoir.

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The Croton Reservoir was a fixture of old New York for many years. The year 1842 marked what was perhaps one of the greatest forward strid...
Thursday, July 12, 2007

Adolph Hitler artist??? In fact he was a quite a good one. One can only wish he had followed that vocation rather than the political one.

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One could only wish that Adolph Hitler had followed his dream and became an artist.His ambition was to become an art student but he failed ...
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