We have been hailing the Civil Rights Era as a grand and universal success for decades. Desegregation is an unquestionable good in the eyes of all good Americans. So, let’s take a
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One of the greatest self-inflicted sins a nation can commit is to import immigrants who have no ties to the past sacrifices of the nation’s sons. People that don’t have any sort
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The Dallas Cowboys: The Outrageous History of the Biggest, Loudest, Most Hated, Best Loved Football Team in America. By Joe Nick Patoski. (New York: Little, Brown and Company, 2012. Pp. ix +
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Editor’s note: The following is excerpted from Hero Tales from American History, by Henry Cabot Lodge and Theodore Roosevelt Daniel Boone will always occupy a unique place in our history as the
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The Rising in 1776 Thomas Buchanan Read Out of the North the wild news came, Far flashing on its wings of flame, Swift as the boreal light which flies At midnight through
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Editor’s note: The following is excerpted from Hero-Myths and Legends of the British Race, by M.I. Ebbutt (published 1910) The Roland Legends CHARLES THE GREAT, King of the Franks, world-famous as Charlemagne,
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Editor’s Note: The following account is taken from Historical Tales, Vol. 6, by Charles Morris (published 1896). Charlemagne, the great king, had built himself an empire only surpassed by that of ancient
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Recently, I was rewatching the great movie, Tombstone, with my youngest son. It was the first time he had seen it. I experienced much joy seeing him react to the events depicted, as
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Yesterday, I met Royal Marine Commando George Edwin Pointer. He is 93 and will be 94 later this year. Tomorrow he will be at the palace and meet Harry. He has been
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Editor’s Note: The following account is taken from Historical Tales, by Charles Morris (published 1896). Prasutagus, the king of the Icenians, a tribe of the ancient Britons, had amassed much wealth in
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Imagine, if you will, a beggar. He is found on the side of the road, too poor for a cup, simply holding his hand out, hoping that passersby will leave a coin.
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