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Fort Sumter: Dividing a Nation

Wars are seldom tidy, and often the unfinished business from one war provides the spark and tinder for the next. The forts that...

Jack Kenny April 11, 2011

The Panic of 1893: Boosting Bankers’ Money and Power

Bob Adelmann April 6, 2011

Junius Morgan was, at best, a third-tier English banker in the 1850s, who was fortunate to have had a hand in a number...

Civilization and Tsunamis

Charles Scaliger March 17, 2011

It is a signal irony that, within days of the apocalyptic earthquake and tsunami that have brought Japan to her knees, archaeologists announced...

The Revolution’s Reactionary Radicals

Becky Akers March 11, 2011

When Solomon observed that there’s nothing new under the sun, he might have been speaking of politicians: Most plagiarize from their predecessors. Wage...

Daniel Webster’s Infamous “Seventh of March” speech Delivered in 1850

Joe Wolverton, II, J.D. March 7, 2011

On this day 161 years ago, famed orator Daniel Webster delivered one of the most memorable speeches of his remarkable career. Standing to...

A History of Union Murder and Sabotage

Daniel Sayani February 28, 2011

The raging union-led protests in Wisconsin have resulted in many Americans taking a closer, more critical look at labor unions and their political...

Founding Fathers for ObamaCare?

Michael Tennant February 25, 2011

Did the Founding Fathers support the idea of government-run healthcare? The question seems to answer itself. The Founders had just thrown off the...

President Grover Cleveland: the Democrat Who Vetoed 300 Bills

Bob Adelmann February 22, 2011

Prior to serving two non-consecutive terms as President of the United States (#22 from 1885-1889 and #24 from 1893-1897), Grover Cleveland’s reputation for...

A Look Back: Larry McDonald at CPAC 1979

Christian Gomez February 17, 2011

With all the excitement generated at this year’s Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), we at The New American thought it would be appropriate...

The Raid on Truk Lagoon

February 11, 2011

Having grown up during the years following World War II, it never fails to surprise me how little most people who haven’t reached...

Reagan Centennial: Facts are Stubborn Things

Bob Adelmann February 7, 2011

As political commentator for the Concerned Women for American's Legislative Action Committee and former speechwriter for former President George H. W. Bush, Janice...

Hmong People Say Goodbye To Their Hero

William F. Jasper February 7, 2011

General Vang Pao, the heroic anti-communist leader of the Laotian Hmong, was laid to rest early in February during a six-day funeral held...

Military-industrial Spending Spree

Jack Kenny January 28, 2011

“Avoid the necessity of those overgrown military establishments, which, under any form of government, are inauspicious to liberty, and which are to be...