Starving Ships & Freezing Winter at Valley Forge, 1777-78
By Bill Federer: “December 25th — Christmas. We are still in tents, when ought to be in huts — the poor sick, suffer much in tents this cold weather.
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George Washington and America’s Christmas Miracle
By Newt Gingrich: As I gather with family and friends for the holiday, I like to think about the most important Christmas moments that we have shared together. This year, as I was thinking…
Read MoreTo Make Congress Better, Make It (a Lot) Bigger
Editor’s note — an interesting take from Jeff Jacoby: If you’re like most Americans, you don’t think much of Congress.
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Four Pillars: Educating for America
By Larry P. Arnn, President, Hillsdale College: The following is adapted from a speech delivered on December 6, 2019, during a Christmas Open House at Hillsdale College’s Allan P. Kirby, Jr. Center for Constitutional…
Read MoreBoston Tea Party
From Patriot Post: On Dec. 16, 1773, “radicals” from Boston threw 342 chests of tea into Boston Harbor.
Read MoreIn Restoring Civics, Start with the Basics
By Robert Holland: There is a lot to be said for students having the opportunity to write research papers or develop projects independently. But first they should have a base of knowledge from which…
Read MoreHow To Misunderstand And Misrepresent The Founders
By Robert Curry: For the American Founders, unalienable rights—not property—was the overarching concept. How is this so hard for modern scholars to grasp?
Read More1776, not 1619
By Arthur Milikh: America’s Founding was not defined by slavery and white supremacy—quite the contrary.
Read MoreThe New York Times’ 1619 Project Reeks Of Herbert Marcuse’s Divisive Ideology
By Mike Gonzalez: Full of essays presenting slavery as the central issue of the American story, and accusing the free market of creating such bondage, the ‘1619 Project’ is another attempt to make Americans…
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The Death of American Citizenship
Victor Davis Hanson gives his opinion on the death of American citizenship: The American Founders institutionalized the best of a long Western tradition of representative government with the U.S. Constitution and Bill of Rights….
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Did Slavery Create American Prosperity?
Doug Petrikat asks regarding the “1619 Project” did slavery create American prosperity?: Recently there seem to be an increasing number of claims that American prosperity resulted from slavery. This is presented as justification for…
Read MoreChanneling Howard Zinn
By Mary Grabar: For the Democratic’s presidential candidates, like the late Boston University Marxist historian, America is irredeemably racist. Their rhetoric and remedies are terrifying.
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Diversity Inc. Is Becoming Even More Dangerous
Bruce Thornton explains why “Diversity Inc.” is becoming even more dangerous. Here is the lede: Applying “equality” to selecting brain surgeons and airline pilots. Here are a couple of excerpts: I was lucky to…
Read MoreThe 1917 Project: ‘Founded On Slavery’ Looks Like Communist Russia
By Katya Sedgwick: If America was created for capitalism and liberty, the USSR’s founding idea was state control, of which slavery—or serfdom, as it is known in Russian context—was the inevitable result. The New…
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Celebrating Constitution Day
Happy Constitution Day! Here are two articles on the topic: Celebrating Constitution Day WASHINGTON, D.C. — Today we celebrate Constitution Day – the day the Founding Fathers signed the U.S. Constitution on September 17,…
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