As a travel and commercial photographer, my eye was immediately drawn to the historic Reykjavik Grammar School during my visit … More
Category: History
Gallery: Fort Leaton, Presidio, TX
Big Bend Times Ben Leaton built a fortified adobe trading post known as Fort Leaton in 1848. In 1936, the … More
Gallery: Fort Davis National Historic Site
Big Bend Times “From 1854 to 1891, Fort Davis was strategically located to protect emigrants, mail coaches, and freight wagons … More
Book Review: Quicksilver – Terlingua and the Chisos Mining Company
Terlingua is a Texas ghost town, situated between Big Bend National Park and Big Bend Ranch State Park, known for … More
Lyndon Johnson’s Low-Risk Cuba Policies Yield Rewards for Fidel Castro
“We had been operating a damn Murder Inc. in the Caribbean,” President Lyndon B. Johnson said of Central Intelligence Agency … More
Ancien Regime France: If Not Revolution, What Were They Thinking?
Paper by David Flash for History 353: French Revolution and Napoleon at The University of Texas at Austin, Grade: A … More
C.I.A. Operation PBSUCCESS in Guatemala informed Cuban strategies and tactics to resist U.S. Intervention
Paper by David Flash for HIS 306N: Latin America and the U.S. at The University of Texas at Austin, Fall 2018, … More
Citigroup’s Long History of Living Off Uncle Sam
David Stockman was a U.S. Congressman, C.E.O. of a company with 15,000 employees, and the White House budget director under President Reagan. Currently, Stockman … More
President Eisenhower’s inaction slowed desegregation
Paper by David Flash written for History 320R: Texas 1914 to Present at The University of Texas at Austin; Grade … More
Exceptionalism Rooted in Racism Both Fueled and Tempered U.S. Territorial Expansion
Paper by David Flash, HIS 306N: Latin America and the U.S. at the University of Texas at Austin, Grade: A- … More
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