Non-Essential History – or why is it called The Big Apple presented by Professor Kane

Dr. James
P. Kane will be discussing footnotes to history. For example, what happened to
Gen. Robert E. Lee after the Civil War?  How old was Jefferson when he
wrote the Declaration of Independence? Where did Jefferson attend
college?  And what words did he write for his tombstone?  Who was
John Harvard? Why is it called the Ivy League? And why is Notre Dame – with a
French heritage – called The Fighting Irish? Hear the heroic story of
USS Arizona (still leaking oil to the surface) and how survivors of the attack are electing
to spend eternity with their shipmates. Why do we use the expression ‘a square
meal’?  Where did the expression Son of a Gun come from? Learn the answers
to these and many more “non-essential” historical facts.