(07-20-2015 06:15 PM)olliebaba Wrote:  Any era before the cell phone is the best era. Speaking of which, have you ever read a news story where the driver lost control of the car in the middle of nowhere and people got killed. Police should (I don't know if they do) check to see when the last time the driver texted/talked on the phone.

I'm pretty sure they do. Girlfriend is a lawyer, cell phones/Facebook/email makes her job so much easier now because people just don't realize that you can't 'delete' that sort of information.

(07-20-2015 11:30 AM)Fitbud Wrote:  

(07-18-2015 10:25 PM)UConn-SMU Wrote:  The Progressive Era, basically 1890-1915. It's long enough ago to be "history", but I knew people who were alive then so it's also very real for me.

In many ways it's when modern America emerged. So many new things became commonplace ... cars, electricity, phones. I can identify with those people.

Your joking right? I thought you hated progressives?

I'm more interested in the cultural situation from 1890 to 1915 than the political. That's really when modern America came together: cars, electricity, phones, baseball, movies, etc. I find it exciting and fascinating.

Politically, I'm ok with the progressives from a century ago. They were fighting real evils like child labor and a basically unregulated food industry. Today's progressives have gone too far; now we're over regulated.

(07-20-2015 08:46 PM)UConn-SMU Wrote:  

(07-20-2015 11:30 AM)Fitbud Wrote:  

(07-18-2015 10:25 PM)UConn-SMU Wrote:  The Progressive Era, basically 1890-1915. It's long enough ago to be "history", but I knew people who were alive then so it's also very real for me.

In many ways it's when modern America emerged. So many new things became commonplace ... cars, electricity, phones. I can identify with those people.

Your joking right? I thought you hated progressives?

I'm more interested in the cultural situation from 1890 to 1915 than the political. That's really when modern America came together: cars, electricity, phones, baseball, movies, etc. I find it exciting and fascinating.

Politically, I'm ok with the progressives from a century ago. They were fighting real evils like child labor and a basically unregulated food industry. Today's progressives have gone too far; now we're over regulated.

I agree with you on progressives from a century ago. I'm model my politics after them.

I've always loved the turn of the century through the first world war, a period when America was firmly on the move.

Revolutionary era.

The American Revolution is possibly the most under-appreciated revolution of all-time in my opinion.

For example, the French Revolution seems to be the proverbial "beacon on the hill" of most post-renaissance history courses. The American revolution fought that same battle starting 13 years earlier and actually accomplished what they set out to accomplish. The French Revolution began in 1789, led to widespread terror, then they ended up with a dictator at the end of it anyway.

(07-21-2015 11:02 AM)HeartOfDixie Wrote:  I've always loved the turn of the century through the first world war, a period when America was firmly on the move.

We can be that way again.