Stuff That Happened

Back before the turn of the 20th Century, textbooks and historians routinely placed Ulysses S. Grant in the upper echelon of great American presidents, alongside names like George Washington and Abraham Lincoln.  However, in the last 125 years or so, historians view on Grant has soured greatly and he is often found towards the bottom of the list on many presidential rankings.  Today we’ll look into the main challenges, accomplishments and failures of Grant during his presidency and why I believe he is vastly underrated and, as a hardcore defender of equal rights, did his part to at least try to bring universal and unalienable rights to all Americans regardless of skin color long before the Civil Rights Act was actually passed.  He also took measures to improve the postwar economy and improve foreign relations. Ulysses S. Grant was of course a famous Civil War General for the north before he ran for president.  During the war in which one side, the South, clearly had ...

On April 19th, 1995, a quiet morning like any other suddenly turned into an unthinkable nightmare when the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City was torn into by a forty-eight-hundred-pound ammonium nitrate–fuel oil bomb detonated from a truck parked outside the building.  It killed 168 people including 19 children, many of whom were inside a Day Care, which was part of the building.   The city showed incredible resolve, working night and day on rescue operations with help from emergency services and civilians alike.  No looting or violence took place in the aftermath and thousands of people and businesses contributed to the rescue operations, saving many lives.  In the meantime, another operation was taking place – one that involved finding whatever twisted person or persons was behind this atrocious act.  In today’s video, we’ll look into the investigation and the arrest of the Oklahoma City bomber and his accomplices, along with why and how ...