Slavery Abolition

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…

America’s laws are largely derived from English Common Law. Sir William Blackstone’s “Commentaries on the Laws of England,” published 1765-1769 by Oxford’s Clarendon Press, had an immense influence on America’s founders, being considered the definitive pre-Re…

I saw Marianne Williamson speak on Independence Day. In Washington, D.C., crowds gathered in a rainstorm to see tanks roll and to cheer on Donald Trump. In Concord, New Hampshire, a group of about seventy people convened at a performing-arts space called Phen…

My dad always flew an American flag in our front yard. The blue paint on our two-story house was perennially chipping; the fence, or the rail by the stairs, or the front door, existed in a perpetual state of disrepair, but that flag always flew pristine. Our …

Dozens of immigrant workers have been released a day after being detained in the largest immigration raid in a decade in the United States. AP WASHINGTON  Acting U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services Director Ken Cuccinelli on Tuesday evening doubled d…

As of 2010, there were about 129,864,880 books in the entire world, according to Google's estimate. Even if you quit your job, subsisted off of dewdrops, and spent every waking hour reading, the odds that you could read every one of them are not in your fa…

Resident defends support of memory of Confederates Abraham Lincoln said, If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it, and if I could save it by freeing all the slaves, I would do it, and if I could save it by freeing some and leaving…