Our intrepid progressives have tossed Christopher Columbus and his special day of remembrance to their ash heap of history. They have instead created something they find much more noble. They call it Indigenous Peoples’ Day. This day, they assure us,…
This Tuesday marked the 159th anniversary of Robert E. Lee’s surrender to Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox — the beginning of the end of a bitter and bloody civil war. From the modern American perspective, it’s almost impossible to comprehend…
Do you, too, long for the good-old days when the philistines tearing down statues did so on their own dime and on their own time? “The National Park Service proposes to rehabilitate Welcome Park to provide a more welcoming, accurate,…
Americans have a longstanding love affair with their pets. Polls by Gallup and Pew Research consistently show that a majority of Americans have pets and consider the pets family members. Not surprisingly, pets have figured prominently throughout American history. Almost…
If Donald Trump were imprisoned and then found dead, hanging in his cell, his repp-stripe tie serving as a noose, would you be surprised? I wouldn’t be. The Justice Department would redouble its commitment to protect democracy, promising to imprison…
WASHINGTON — With all the talk about the discovery of mass burial graves in faraway Ukraine, there is little thought of such graves being discovered here in America. Yet in recent weeks, archeologists have found their own mass grave in…
History is a bit like Otto von Bismarck’s famous line about sausages and laws, which, he said, no one should watch being made. Think of all the people you’ve seen in pictures and statues or on coins and currency. Consider…
We here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain — that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom … The Republican-led post-Civil War Congresses acted on that resolve. They passed three constitutional…
One hundred and sixty years ago in early September 1862, Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee and the Army of Northern Virginia, fresh from a stunning victory at Second Bull Run (or Second Manassas), crossed the Potomac River and invaded Maryland,…
