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
Seems a bit early to be writing this, but the fact is the history is already written. The nails are in the coffin. It’s already happened. The US is down 34 to 10, and there are only 2 minutes to
In this silly season of American politics, a common conversation is held in barbershops and forums, in person and on the web: Who was the greatest of all American presidents? In my
Many patriots these days lament that the Republican Party has lost its way and gone wrong. It has diverged from the fiscally responsible, small government philosophy of Republican heroes like Robert Taft
Editor’s Note: The following is excerpted from The Lives of Patriots and Heroes, by John S. Jenkins (1847). At the time this book was published, the memory of Nathan Hale, and his
Nathanael Greene was a true Man of the West. Oddly enough, those who first met him often discounted his strength and attributes. You see, Greene had a pronounced limp and had no
Southeastern Europe Under Ottoman Rule, 1354-1804. Peter F. Sugar. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1977. 365 pp. $34.95. ISBN 0-295-96033-7 Peter Sugar presents this volume in the History of East Central
In the Winter of 1861-62, the folks in Memphis were busy building two new Confederate rams, the Tennessee and the Arkansas. In April of ’62, the Arkansas was moved up the Yazoo
Today I wish to discuss an oddity of history and marvel of engineering. She was the largest of her kind, terrifyingly effective and at the same time… outrageously useless. Among the 1,420
Editor’s Note: Though this is primarily a brief historical look at colonial finances, notice the connection between war, growing national debt, and the increase of corporatism, which eventually places undue burdens on
It was the year 1054, and the differences between the eastern half of the Church and the western half of the Church finally boiled over, resulting in what we now call The
After my Keanu Reeves article, it seems that it might be beneficial to give a basic overview of the Strauss-Howe theory of Generations. My earlier article made some assumptions regarding this theory,
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