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
While the British were latecomers to colonization, with the Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, and even French establishing footholds in North America, the British did develop significant trade routes with the New World and
Lawrence James seems to take the standard approach that the Seven Year’s War was a continuation of previous conflicts (p. 66). His claim that the peace achieved at the end of the
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Sleuthing The Alamo: Davy Crockett’s Last Stand and Other Mysteries of the Texas Revolution. By James E. Crisp. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2005. Pp. xvi + 201. Forward, Acknowledgements, Chronology, Afterword,
In 1958, Vice President Richard Nixon embarked upon a foreign trip to South America, where many countries had been experiencing massive unrest. After a brief, and successful, stop is Montevideo, Uruguay, Nixon,
What Is This Book About? Asser’s biography of Alfred the Great is the oldest known biography of an Anglo-Saxon king (p. 48). It serves as a totem for the respect that Asser
Editor’s Note: At the bottom of the text, you can view a video of the speech, if you prefer. My fellow Americans: This is the 34th time I’ll speak to you
There are times when life seems grim. The future dark. There are many events occurring now that could cause one to wonder what kind of future we can have with the corrupt
When in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another and to assume among the powers of the
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