Saturday, February 14, 2009

HAPPY 150th BIRTHDAY OREGON!


Check out the Oregon Historical Society's timeweb. It's packed full of historical goodness.

posted by Mr. Carlisle at 7:53 AM

6 Comments:

Blogger luangrath said...

If I could interrupt people's classes to give Oregon a THS Valogram (sp?), I would.

8:31 AM

 
Blogger luangrath said...

I finished the Hellhounds reading today. Shocking. I can't believe people treated lynchings/burnings/mutilations like it was normal.

Especially that one 9 year old who saw a black man lynched but said he now wanted to see one burned alive. Sick.

7:24 PM

 
Blogger Mr. Carlisle said...

I know it's very troubling to read about that kind of stuff. I was amazed to learn how much of a public spectacle lynching was.

8:32 PM

 
Anonymous Anonymous said...

In the year 2100, will someone write about today's death penalty with the same tone?

7:55 PM

 
Blogger Casey said...

Executions of today aren't the public spectacle that lynchings were then. And regardless of what you think of the "painlessness" of the current methods of execution, none of them come close to the pure torture that people subjected to lynchings endured.

In 2100, everyone (except maybe Texas) will probably talk about how inhumane we were back when we had the death penalty, but every person with half a clue will agree that it doesn't hold a candle to the lynchings of the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

Oh and that reading pretty much disgusted me, I'm glad I only had to read it once.

8:45 PM

 
Blogger Unknown said...

Ugh. Carlisle I don't know if I'll make it to school tomorrow. I'm sick and I can't go to sleep because of being sick. So if I somehow make it to school I'll be about as tired as I can be

11:24 PM

 

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