Slavery Abolition

From the novels of Louis LAmour to the high-action western films of the 1950s, western fiction has been dominated by male narratives that focus heavily on the experiences of white, cisgendered, heterosexual men. This comes at the expense of the otherwise rich…

The ongoing crusade against Americas civic rituals and founding values picked up pace this summer. The city council of St. Louis Park, Minn., stopped reciting the Pledge of Allegiance before its meetings, lest immigrants feel uncomfortable. Nike junked a com…

Who was Walter Bagehot? For generations of politics students he has been the all-but-unpronounceable Bayge-hot? Baggott? author of the magisterial TheEnglish Constitution (1867). Since the 2008 crash he has enjoyed a vogue among central bankers for Lombard St…

David Oyelowo has no issue with a black, British actress playing an iconic African-American like Harriet Tubman -- despite lacking roots to American slavery -- because acting is acting. Yes, you could say the British actor was just defending the home team, b…

The California Supreme Court found the city of San Diego didnt properly analyze the potential economic impacts of its 2014 marijuana dispensary rules. Also, The New York Times Magazine explores how slavery created Americas wealth, the U.S. Attorneys Office ma…

The Zionist Organization of America was founded in 1897 to support the establishment of a Jewish homeland in Palestine. During the first world war it took a more explicitly statist direction, endorsed by the British governments Balfour Declaration of 1917; in…

Skip to comments. The New York Times Reframes American History to Target Donald Trump and His SupportersRush Limbaugh.com ^ | August 19, 2019 | Rush Limbaugh Posted on 08/19/2019 2:18:12 PM PDT by Kaslin RUSH: All right. Just right here is why I am nec…

Most schoolchildren can recite the founding date of the United States of America: July 4, 1776. But a searing project from the New York Times Magazine changes that date to August 20, 1619—the day 20 enslaved Africans first arrived on Virginia soil. The 1619 …

Joe Scarborough has a show on MSNBC, Morning Joe. He is virulently anti-Trump. He has even said the US president is "openly racist" and, "if you support him, then you're supporting that". Joe has called Donald Trump "completely detached from reality", "everyb…

Before there was any New England in the North, there was something very like Old England in the South. Relatively speaking, there is still G. K. Chesterton Within Christian and conservative circles, the great English writer Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874-193…