Alex Pinelli, Author at The American Spectator | USA News and Politics

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Alex Pinelli

Alex Pinelli graduated Liberty University with a Ph.D. in history and is currently Dean of Students as well as a history and Biblical Worldview teacher at a private school in Charlottesville, Virgnia.

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The Midwestern Ethos

by Alex Pinelli | Mar 6, 2023

The Good Country: A History of the American Midwest 1800-1900 By Jon K. Lauck (University of Oklahoma Press, 366 pages, $65) Regional or cultural histories seem to be more in vogue now more than ever before. They have undoubtedly grown…