55 Years After Alabama’s Voting Rights March, Meet The Marcher With The Cracker Jack Shoes
Somewhere along the 55-mile voting rights march from Selma to Montgomery in 1965, 15-year-old Betty Anderson, whose father was a shoemaker, wore a large hole in her shoe. But that didn’t stop her.
As America-Hating Spreads, Slanted 1619 Project Meets Competition From Black Academics
America was founded in 1776 on the idea that ‘all men are created equal,’ the principle that led to slavery abolition and created the freest nation on Earth.
You Know Who Else Colonized Land From ‘Indigenous Peoples’? Native Americans
The ‘settler’ argument exacerbates racial tensions by projecting a historical narrative in which white Americans, regardless of their family histories, are singularly responsible for historical evils against indigenous people.
Too Often Black History Month Sidelines African-American Triumphs For Politics
It’s time to restore real black history: recognition of achievement and overcoming obstacles as citizens integral to this great nation.
Selma, Alabama’s First Black Church Is Still Going Strong. Take A Look At Its Amazing Legacy
First Baptist has always had strong members whose faith, tested and tried with slavery, Jim Crow segregation, intimidation, violence, and even a devastating tornado, triumphed over all.
A Farewell Toast To Abraham Lincoln
Like any just man, Abraham Lincoln knew the hope of rest and the promise of peace hereafter.
Meet The ‘Colored Patriots Of The American Revolution’ Who Helped Make America Great
William Cooper Nell’s innovative approach of collecting oral records passed down from Revolutionary War veterans showed what these unsung heroes did for their country and why they deserved equal rights.
To Fight The 1619 Project’s Lies, Take This Free U.S. History Class
Although fact-checking the 1619 Project and offering academic criticism is important, it is not the most effective strategy for winning the hearts and minds of Americans.
Census Records: Pete Buttigieg’s Ancestor Owned Slaves On Native American-Ceded Land
Among Pete Buttigieg’s mother’s ancestors we can find his great-great-great-great-grandfather, a Tennessee congressman and planter named William Marshall Inge.
Clarence Thomas’s Life Repudiates The Left’s Hatred Of America
Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas faced down a ‘high-tech lynching’ by the same people who now claim to be America’s arbiters of racial justice. He has every reason to be vindictive and chooses not to be.
Meet The Man Who Saved 62,000 People During The Holocaust
This International Holocaust Remembrance Day, take time to remember the victims, remember the survivors, and remember Carl Lutz, the man responsible for the largest civilian rescue mission of the entire Holocaust.
Saying ‘Never Again’ Means Nothing If It’s Not Backed Up With Actions
In the case of the Holocaust and its obvious evil, it’s easy for anyone living today to insist he would’ve fought on the side of justice. But how many people flatter themselves?
If People Can’t Get Married On Plantations, They Can’t Get Married Anywhere
Yes, horrible things happened at Southern plantations. But horrible things have happened all across the entire nation. To start banning venues due to evils is to prevent attempts to replace evil with good.
‘Can This Be Hell?’ This Month We Remember Those Who Died Fighting For Freedom
In the bleak midwinter 155 years ago this month, my great-great-Uncle Cornelius M. Dearth died here — on the grounds of the Civil War POW camp in Andersonville, Georgia. He was 22.
Daniel Webster: America Rests Upon Gratitude For Our Government Of And For The People
‘When, from the long distance of a hundred years, they shall look back upon us, they shall know, at least, that we possessed…gratitude for what our ancestors have done for our happiness.’
The Woman Who Made Thanksgiving A National Holiday Pleads Her Case
‘We have long endeavored to secure the celebration of this great festival upon the same day in every American State and Territory, so that it might be a National Holiday.’
What You Think You Know About America’s First Thanksgiving Is Probably Wrong
Whether we feast on turkey, seafood, or barbecue, may Thanksgiving 2019 enable us to count our blessings today, give thanks for the good in our past, and strengthen us for tomorrow.
Rediscover Thanksgiving’s Origins As A National Uniter During The Civil War
Americans have an annoying knack for purging holidays of their true meaning, and Thanksgiving is no exception.
How A Russian’s Grocery Store Trip In 1989 Exposed The Lie Of Socialism
The fall of the Berlin Wall was indeed a watershed in the collapse of the Soviet Empire, yet one could argue the true death knell came two months before at a small grocery store in Clear Lake, Texas.
30 Years After The Fall Of The Berlin Wall, Socialism Is Staging A Comeback
People who love liberty cannot declare victory on this day of commemoration each year, because the battle hasn’t been won: socialism is staging a comeback in Western democracies
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