History

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

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

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

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...

In Wake of Tucson, Media Ignores Rep. Larry McDonald

Christian Gomez January 25, 2011

In the midst of one American tragedy, another one is being ignored. Following the shooting of Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords and the murder of...

Global Warming Brought Down the Roman Empire?

Joe Wolverton, II, J.D. January 24, 2011

If English historian Edward Gibbon were alive today, he might have to add a paragraph or two to his seminal six-volume History of...

A Renewed Myth That The John Birch Society Incited Kennedy Assassination

Thomas R. Eddlem January 21, 2011

The Warren Commission concluded back in 1964 that it had "no evidence that the extreme views expressed toward President Kennedy by some rightwing groups...

Robert E. Lee: A Man Without a Country for 110 Years

Bob Adelmann January 19, 2011

Several states officially recognize and celebrate January 19 as Robert E. Lee’s birthday, including the state of Virginia as part of Jackson-Lee Day...