Anniversary of the Landing of LaFayette
Schoolchildren learn of the crucial and timely role played by France in the American victory over King George III’s redcoats. The personification of...
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Anniversary of the Petition of Right: Essential Part of American History
Several landmark documents from English history have contributed significantly to our own Constitution bulwark of liberty. One of these documents just celebrated a...
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Fred Koch: Oil Man Against Communism
In the year 1930, the city of Tiflis (now Tbilisi) was a captive capital. The ancient city in the heart of the Caucasus,...
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FDR’s Solicitor General Withheld Evidence in Japanese Internment Cases
Even in peacetime, government lies are so commonplace as to hardly be news. During wartime, however, the government fib fabricator goes into overdrive...
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Bane of the Barbary Pirates
When Thomas Jefferson became the third President of the United States on March 4, 1801, there was but a fleeting hint of warning...
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Robert Welch: An Americanist Entrepreneur
In 1914, when the Old World was at war, the New, unaware of the designs of its political and financial leaders, expected to...
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Bin Laden & Al-Qaeda: U.S. Govt. Creations
The popular narrative surrounding the life of Osama bin Laden is filled with questions, intrigue, and misinformation. Though he ultimately became one of...
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Why Did It Take 10 Years to Get bin Laden?
Questions about President Obama’s ever-changing narrative on Osama bin Laden’s reported assassination and rampant speculation that at least some Pakistani officials may have...
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The Kohler Strike of 1954
Fifty miles north of Milwaukee lies the idyllic village of Kohler, Wisconsin. The largest employer in Kohler is the Kohler Company, a worldwide...
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Days Before His Death, JFK Asked CIA About UFOs
According to documents obtained under a Freedom of Information Act request, in the days just prior to his assassination, President John F. Kennedy...
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Federalists, Anti-Federalists, and State Sovereignty
What a dreadful Spirit that Man possesses, who can put a private Appetite in balance against the universal Good of his Country, and...
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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...
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The Panic of 1893: Boosting Bankers’ Money and Power
Junius Morgan was, at best, a third-tier English banker in the 1850s, who was fortunate to have had a hand in a number...
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Civilization and Tsunamis
It is a signal irony that, within days of the apocalyptic earthquake and tsunami that have brought Japan to her knees, archaeologists announced...
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The Revolution’s Reactionary Radicals
When Solomon observed that there’s nothing new under the sun, he might have been speaking of politicians: Most plagiarize from their predecessors. Wage...
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