Slavery Abolition

Thanksgiving means real, not ideological, inclusiveness. President Abraham Lincoln profoundly demonstrated this fundamental point. Story Highlights Arthur I. Cyr, Clausen Distinguished Professor, Carthage College and author of After the Cold War (NY…

Thanksgiving means real, not ideological, inclusiveness. President Abraham Lincoln profoundly demonstrated this fundamental point. On Oct. 3, 1863, the White House issued the Thanksgiving Proclamation, declaring the last Thursday of November to be a day of th…

Thanksgiving means real, not ideological, inclusiveness. President Abraham Lincoln profoundly demonstrated this fundamental point. On Oct. 3, 1863, the White House issued the Thanksgiving Proclamation, declaring the last Thursday of November to be a day of th…

Thanksgiving 2019 The Thanksgiving story is an absolution of the Pilgrims, whose brutal quest for absolute power in the New World is made to seem both religiously motivated and eminently human…. The Mayflower’s cultural heirs are programmed to find glory in …

Pennsylvania's James Buchanan, who lived from 1791 to 1868, was the 15th president of the United States and is generally regarded as one of the worst to ever hold that office. On his watch, the Union dissolved as Southern states seceded following the election…

PLYMOUTH, Mass.   Before they're served piles of turkey and pie, kids often hear the story of the first Thanksgiving  how Pilgrims and native Americans came together to feast and count their blessings. But most aren't told native people likely outnumbered En…

Last year, in May, when he announced a new partnership with Netflix, he revealed he and Michelles production company would be called Higher Ground. In July, just after Trump and Vladimir Putin met in Helsinki, Obama gave his most extensive public remarks, the…

Christians need heroes. Yes, I know, Jesus is the ultimate hero. He is the only flawless hero, the only substitute-for-our-sins hero, the only dying and rising hero. But that doesnt mean Jesus is the only kind of hero. As Christians, we are right to be insp…

“The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance” movie poster from 1962(John Ford Productions/IMDB ) By questioning myth-making, John Wayne and John Fords late Western restores the values of the Constitution and the Declaration.The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance was such a …

President Abraham Lincoln delivered the Gettysburg Address on Nov. 19, 1863. The Stories of Segregation Academies, as Told by the White Students Who Attended Them When Did the Right Become Unable to Deal With the Complexity of American…