https://bluecerealeducation.com Sun, 04 Jun 2023 20:23:42 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.3 https://files.bluecerealeducation.com/2023/06/BowlIcon.png https://bluecerealeducation.com 32 32 https://bluecerealeducation.com/blog/gettysburg-address-part-three-lincolns-big/ Thu, 16 Apr 2015 20:33:34 +0000 http://localhost:8888/bluecerealwp/blog/gettysburg-address-part-three-lincolns-big/ Continue reading The Gettysburg Address, Part Three (Lincoln’s Big ‘But’)]]> 149 https://bluecerealeducation.com/blog/intermission-gettysburg-address-part-two/ https://bluecerealeducation.com/blog/intermission-gettysburg-address-part-two/#comments Wed, 15 Apr 2015 01:04:47 +0000 http://localhost:8888/bluecerealwp/blog/intermission-gettysburg-address-part-two/ Lincoln points to the year of the Declaration of Independence – the ‘birth’ of our nation and a written statement not only of rebellion, but of ideals. The Constitution has rules about running for the Senate and requiring the various states to play nicely together; the Declaration proclaims all men were created equal, and endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights. The Constitution is functional, but birthed in compromise and politics. The Declaration is idealistic and uninterested in practicalities – it glows and pretty music plays whenever we close our eyes and call its name three times.]]> https://bluecerealeducation.com/blog/intermission-gettysburg-address-part-two/feed/ 1 148 https://bluecerealeducation.com/blog/intermission-gettysburg-address-part-one/ Tue, 14 Apr 2015 11:50:04 +0000 http://localhost:8888/bluecerealwp/blog/intermission-gettysburg-address-part-one/ Continue reading The Gettysburg Address, Part One (After Everett)]]> 147 https://bluecerealeducation.com/blog/heres-your-mule-part-three-sure-was-sumter/ Sun, 15 Mar 2015 15:42:20 +0000 http://localhost:8888/bluecerealwp/blog/heres-your-mule-part-three-sure-was-sumter/ After Lincoln’s election in 1860, a number of Southern states – starting, of course, with South Carolina – began seceding from the Union. Or trying, at least – depending on who you asked. Soldiers and others who happened to find themselves in the South but remained loyal to the Union began finding their way north in anticipation of the coming conflict. This meant by and large than any arms or other military property in the seceding states defaulted to the control of those siding with the South – them being the only ones left and all. Except one.]]> 135 https://bluecerealeducation.com/blog/little-knowledge-part-one-secession-and-superiority/ https://bluecerealeducation.com/blog/little-knowledge-part-one-secession-and-superiority/#comments Sat, 21 Feb 2015 06:12:16 +0000 http://localhost:8888/bluecerealwp/blog/little-knowledge-part-one-secession-and-superiority/ South Carolina and the other seceding states were upset that the North allowed so much discussion of things which threatened their way of life and went against their beliefs. They listed as one of their central reasons for trying to break the country their collective outrage that other states weren’t doing enough to stifle debate. Their little white feelings were hurt and their dominant role in the world inconvenienced. Poor things. ]]> https://bluecerealeducation.com/blog/little-knowledge-part-one-secession-and-superiority/feed/ 3 123 https://bluecerealeducation.com/blog/any-means-necessary/ Tue, 28 Oct 2014 15:12:41 +0000 http://localhost:8888/bluecerealwp/blog/any-means-necessary/ Continue reading By Any Means Necessary]]> 56 https://bluecerealeducation.com/blog/useful-fictions-part-i/ Thu, 01 May 2014 14:58:57 +0000 http://localhost:8888/bluecerealwp/blog/useful-fictions-part-i/ 71