History

Daily Ration Turned Remembrance: Five Grains of Pilgrim Corn

On the first Thanksgiving Day, the Pilgrims began a custom of placing five grains of corn at the table so that the reason...

Andrew Lane November 28, 2013

History Still Casts Doubts on the Warren Commission Report

Jack Kenny November 25, 2013

Whether Oswald was, in fact, the lone killer of President John F. Kennedy, part of a conspiracy, and/or the fall guy or "patsy"...

Lincoln’s Rewrite of the Declaration of Independence

Jack Kenny November 19, 2013

Six score and 30 years ago, the 16th president of the United States delivered an address at the site of the major Civil...

Washington’s Farewell Address: Beware of “Tools and Dupes”

Joe Wolverton, II, J.D. September 20, 2013

George Washington delivered his famous Farewell Address 217 years ago on September 19. ...

Have We Forgotten the Declaration of Independence?

Joe Wolverton, II, J.D. July 3, 2013

Our contemporary federal government is at least as tyrannical as the government of England in 1776, yet we continue to suffer the "long...

An American Family and the Civil War

Alias June 30, 2013

In the days immediately preceding the U.S. Civil War, strongly held personal beliefs drove families apart as members took sides. When war began,...

Secrecy and States’ Rights: The Constitutional Convention of 1787 Begins

Joe Wolverton, II, J.D. May 29, 2013

On May 29, 1787, the delegates gathered at the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia got down to the business of hammering out a government...

Republics & Democracies

Alias May 14, 2013

"I personally think that ... democracy is a weapon of demagoguery and a perennial fraud. I think that a constitutional republic is the...

Ableman v. Booth: How State Nullification Can Defy Tyrannical Government

Thomas R. Eddlem May 10, 2013

In 1854, Wisconsin rejected the federal Fugitive Slave Act, which mandated Northern states return Southern slaves without due process, demonstrating both the validity...

Waco After 20 Years: A Warning Against Unrestrained Government

Thomas R. Eddlem April 19, 2013

April 19 marks the 20th anniversary of the Waco, Texas, massacre of Branch Davidian church members at the organization's Mount Carmel compound. Some...

On This Day in 1775: The “Midnight Ride of Paul Revere”

Joe Wolverton, II, J.D. April 18, 2013

April 18 is the 238th anniversary of the ride of Paul Revere to warn patriots of the march of British soldiers toward Lexington...

75th Anniversary of the Anschluss Election

Kurt Hyde April 10, 2013

Today is the 75th anniversary of the infamous rigged Anschluss election, where 99 percent of German voters supposedly approved the Nazi takeover of...

Remembering the Internment of Japanese Americans

Bob Adelmann April 1, 2013

Seventy-one years ago today an overzealous general, following unconstitutional orders from his commander-in-chief, started sending American citizens living in California to internment camps...