American History

As protests erupted on college campuses across the country, many of them turning violent, videos of the demonstrations went viral on social media showing they were not merely “pro-Palestinian,” but blatantly anti-American. At the University…

As the world’s oldest continually functioning constitutional republic, few things are unprecedented in American politics. Even the pending rematch between Donald Trump and Joe Biden, while a first within recent memory, has happened several…

The following is adapted from the book Lessons in Liberty: Thirty Rules for Living from Ten Extraordinary Americans. Happy 273rd birthday to James Madison, the most egregiously underappreciated, sadly uncelebrated, and unfairly unsung…

Another wave of Daughters of the American Revolution members is contemplating leaving the national genealogical society after it doubled down on allowing men to infiltrate the formerly all-female organization. National Society Daughters of…

Feb. 12 is Abraham Lincoln’s birthday. That was the reason why Paul Whiteman decided to hold a concert that day in 1924. Paul Whiteman was the King of Jazz, and he was a king with a vision: to meld an orchestral approach with the burgeoning…

Why do we celebrate a holiday honoring a man who was jailed 29 times and ultimately assassinated? What lessons can we learn from Martin Luther King, Jr. and from American society, much of which seems to have forgotten the contributions that…

This month marks the 200th anniversary of the Monroe Doctrine. If celebration (or even acknowledgment) seems muted, that may be because policymakers and the public know little about the principles and grand strategy underlying the doctrine.…

Few today know much about the real Christopher Columbus, an exemplary figure worthy of celebrating for many reasons. He was born in 1451 in the port city of Genoa, now part of Italy, named Cristofor Colombo. It has been said he chose to…

The late conservative cultural critic Roger Scruton once remarked, “Not everything Marx said was wrong.” Such a statement from Sir Roger, a man who dedicated his life to combatting Marxism — both in its totalitarian Soviet form and in its…

Whatever happened to the literal children of the figurative father of our nation? For all of George Washington’s renown, his descendants have become all but forgotten. Our first president had no biological children, but he and Martha raised…