T. A. Roth

Author's details

Name: Teresa Roth
Date registered: November 18, 2011
URL: http://www.heritage-history.com

Biography

Content Editor at Heritage History, Homeschooling Mom of Five, Armchair historian

Latest posts

  1. Famous Inventors and Their Amazing Inventions — April 29, 2013
  2. A Failed Conspiracy against a Tyrant — April 17, 2013
  3. Hell on Earth: A Million “Casualties” at Verdun — April 9, 2013
  4. Saint Stories and Christian Heroes — March 20, 2013
  5. Heritage History and Core Curriculum Standards — March 12, 2013

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Author's posts listings

Apr 29

Famous Inventors and Their Amazing Inventions

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Thomas Edison

Edison was instructed at home by his mother and worked far above grade level. By age twelve he was finished with most of his formal studies and decided to see something of the world by working as a newsboy on a local train circuit. Unable to remain idle for any period of time, he set up shop in an unoccupied train-car and ran both a vegetable market and a newspaper business out of it. Using his own funds, he purchased a second hand printer, and began publishing the Weekly Herald, the first newspaper ever written, printed, and sold on board a moving train.

Apr 17

A Failed Conspiracy against a Tyrant

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Nero first attempted to kill his mother by wrecking her boat at sea.

The executioner advanced and laid his hand on the prisoner’s shoulder. He started at the touch, and grew ghastly pale. “Caesar,” he cried, appealing as a last chance to the feelings of the Emperor, “Caesar, we were once friends, and worshipped the Muses together. Will you suffer this?” Nero only smiled. He had long ago steeled his heart against pity. Lucan he hated with that especially bitter hatred which wounded vanity sometimes inspires. Then the unhappy man’s courage broke down. “Stop!” he cried, “I will confess. I am guilty of conspiring against the Emperor.”

Apr 09

Hell on Earth: A Million “Casualties” at Verdun

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Thousands of shells were fired on the fortifications, day and night for months on end.

Under the weight of superior numbers and superior artillery the French troops, brave as they were, were gradually cut to pieces. Except for two brigades, which came in toward the end, they were without reinforcements of any kind. Their mission was to hold to the very last, and right nobly had they fulfilled it. Their duty was to exact the greatest possible price for each yard of German advance, and right powerfully had they exacted it. For every Frenchman who went down, it is said at least four Germans did likewise. The slaughter was great. Verdun thus gained, almost instantly, the place it was to hold for many months as the graveyard of the contending armies.

Mar 20

Saint Stories and Christian Heroes

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St. Francis of Assisi

Lord, make me an instrument of your peace. Where there is hatred, let me sow love. Where there is injury, pardon, where there is doubt, faith. Where there is despair, hope. Where there is darkness, light and where there is sadness joy.

Mar 12

Heritage History and Core Curriculum Standards

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Alfred the Great managed quite well without CCSS.

There is nothing so corrupt as history when it enters the service of the state.” —Edgar Quinet

“Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.” —George Orwell

“It is the great paradox of the modern world that at the very time when the world decided that people should not be coerced about their form of religion, it also decided that they should be coerced about their form of education.”—G. K. Chesterton

Feb 27

“Victory or Death” at the Alamo

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Alamo

“I am besieged, by a thousand or more of the Mexicans under Santa Anna. I have sustained a continual Bombardment & cannonade for 24 hours & have not lost a man. The enemy has demanded a surrender at discretion, otherwise, the garrison are to be put to the sword . . . I have answered the demand with a cannon shot, & our flag still waves proudly from the walls I shall never surrender or retreat. . . . . I am determined to sustain myself as long as possible & die like a soldier who never forgets what is due to his own honor & that of his country VICTORY OR DEATH.” —William Barret Travis

Feb 25

Plutarch and the “Marks of the Souls of Men”

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Alexander the Great and the Philosopher

Sometimes small incidents, rather than glorious exploits, give us the best evidence of character. So, as portrait painters are more exact in doing the face, where the character is revealed, than the rest of the body, I must be allowed to give my more particular attention to the marks of the souls of men.” —Plutarch

Feb 16

Benjamin Frankin on the “Errors of Mankind”

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Benjamin Franklin, printer's apprentice

The history of the errors of mankind, all things considered, is more valuable and interesting than that of their discoveries. Truth is uniform and narrow . . . But error is endlessly diversified; it has no reality, but is the pure and simple creation of the mind that invents it. In this field the soul has room enough to expand herself, to display all her boundless faculties, and all her beautiful and interesting extravagancies and absurdities.

Feb 12

Fight for Freedom of the Seas: Stephen Decatur

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The Burning of the Philadelphia

“As the Americans swarmed over the rails and came upon the deck the pirates gathered in a panic-stricken, confused mass on the forecastle. Apparently they thought themselves assailed by an opponent many times more numerous than themselves, whereas, in truth, the odds were all on their own side had they but known it. . . . .The pirates, terrorized from the beginning, stood before the fierce onslaught only long enough to see scores of their number go down under the unerring pistol shots and cutlass thrusts of the Americans, and then those of them who could, fled to the rails and jumped madly overboard. . . .”

Jan 29

The Execution of an English King and American Liberties

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King Charles I on the Scaffold

Charles refused to plead, except before a lawful authority. “It is not my case alone,” he said; “it is the freedom and liberty of the people of England; and do you pretend what you will, I stand more for their liberties. For if power without law may make laws, and may alter the fundamental laws of the kingdom, I do not know what subject he is in England that can be sure of his life, or anything that he calls his own

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