Thanks for the GA connection - I'd heard about the...

2009-11-16T08:18:35.264-08:00

Thanks for the GA connection - I'd heard about the slave connection although I hadn't linked it to GA. I'll put a note in the post with a thanks to you...hey, maybe it will make the NPS site!

I'm looking forward to your series on the presiden...

2009-11-16T07:18:04.464-08:00

I'm looking forward to your series on the presidential Nobel prize winners. I'm currently reading H.W. Brands' biography of FDR, and the section that deals with his time working for Wilson is really interesting. There was a dark side there that FDR later tried not to emulate when he became a wartime president.

Liked the Georgia connections. Obama may not have one, but Michelle does: a slave girl named Melvinia, valued at $475, is named in a South Carolina will and left to relatives in Georgia. Melvinia went on to become the great-great-great-grandmother of the first lady.

Comments on American Presidents Blog: Presidential Nobel Peace Prizes

Thanks for the GA connection - I'd heard about the...

I'm looking forward to your series on the presiden...