This weekend I contacted the editors at the Gay and Lesbian Review Journal of History for possible publication of my article: Exploring the Sexuality of a Founding Father: Gay history in the classroom and how it may reshape how we think about our past. This 3,500 word essay deals with questions surrounding the sexual preferences of Alexander Hamilton, as well as the adoption of SB48 in California's classrooms.

I was very lucky to get some excellent insights from the gay community and I could not be more excited about the potential for reaching a new audience. I also have an article set for an upcoming issue of Patriots of the American Revolution titled: The Devout Beliefs of an Unbeliever: Thomas Paine’s Age of Reason which presents the secular views of Thomas Paine.

Next, I am seriously thinking about writing an Op-Ed about the fraudulent early American history that is being taught in our nation’s schools. A friend and I were discussing my last post on Native American perspectives when he shared this: “History and perception is all too often set by the victors. I HATE the fact that our schools perpetuate the ‘Indians and Pilgrims, sitting at a picnic table, carving meat and pumpkins in perfect harmony’ ideal and teach it as history. What is wrong with a little honesty? I think our children, who are now bombarded with more and more unvarnished bulls**t from modern society, are capable of a little truth. Perhaps that would be a lesson that would teach us all a little more humility.” I couldn’t agree more.