Clearly we have to reach beyond academia if we want to reclaim our history. “Calvin Coolidge had four percent growth which candidates today only talk about as a goal,” Amity Shlaes, the former Wall Street…
Topic: U.S. history
Defending Our republican Constitution
Randy Barnett, the Carmack Waterhouse Professor of Legal Theory at the Georgetown University Law Center, director of the Georgetown Center for the Constitution, and an author of eleven books, has a book that should be…
Remembering Josiah Henson
Harriet Tubman and Sojourner Truth are well-known former slaves and abolitionists in pre-American Civil War history, but Josiah Henson has been seemingly forgotten by history. At the Josiah Henson Leadership Conference held in the Maryland…
Graffiti Removed from Confederacy Memorial at University of Texas
So much for tolerance and knowledge of U.S. history: Vandals (again) wrote graffiti on a memorial for those who served on the side of the Confederacy in the American Civil War. Photo by Marion Doss
Ranking 20th Century U.S. Presidents
Since everybody else is rating presidents, we thought we’d give it a shot too, since we’ve covered many of them, especially those who served in the last century. The root of the word president, eminent…
American Students Don’t Know U.S. History, Basic Facts
From Campus Reform: A recent “abysmal” ACTA survey cited in the report found that only 20 percent of respondents identified James Madison as the Father of the Constitution, 40 percent of graduates didn’t know Congress…
Mural that Includes Slaves, Native Americans is Covered Up by University of Kentucky
Everything is offensive! University of Kentucky President Eli Capilouto decided to shroud a controversial mural on campus in order “to respond to the pain that it causes” after a group of students came to him…
University of Maryland President Quotes Wrong U.S. Motto in School E-mail
In an email this week to students, University of Maryland President Wallace Loh outlining the reasons behind his request to the Board of Regents to rename the school’s football stadium, due to the racist past…
Wilson, Du Bois, and Who is Worth Honoring
Guest blogger Jonathan Marks teaches political philosophy at Ursinus College. Corey Robin, a professor of political science at Brooklyn College, concludes a recent piece in Salon by imagining how Princeton might distance itself from its former…
Killing History: Bill O’Reilly’s Killing Reagan Not the First Sensational History Novel
Killing Reagan is not the first factually challenged narrative that Bill O’Reilly has affixed his name to. Spencer Irvine fact checked an earlier best-selling “history”— In light of the liberal media’s outrage of a few factual and…