History

An Old Guy Takes Some Lessons From ‘An Old-Fashioned Girl’0
- Culture, Family, Featured, History, Literature, MomThink
- July 16, 2026
Why does someone past the Psalmist’s “threescore years and ten” find himself entranced by a 150-year-old novel aimed at adolescents, namely, Louisa May Alcott’s “An Old-Fashioned Girl”? The credit or blame – take your pick – for this infatuation lands on a friend whose passion is for older fiction aimed at young readers, like the
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Stay Sane and Save the Republic 0
- Culture, Education, Featured, History, Politics, Western Civilization
- July 13, 2026
I’ve marveled before about how statements of the past can read like today’s headlines, especially those like the following taken from the front flap of Martin L. Gross’ 1997 “The End of Sanity”: “At the University of Pennsylvania, separate dorms have been set up for minorities in the name of racial harmony….” “An apprehended mugger
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Rejecting Socialism While Restoring America’s Christian Roots 0
- Culture, Family, Featured, History, Philosophy, Politics, Western Civilization
- July 9, 2026
In a recent article, Annie Holmquist maps out the twisting path leading eventually from liberalism to communism. She points to Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s 1978 Harvard Address in which he declared, “Liberalism was inevitably pushed aside by radicalism, radicalism had to surrender to socialism, and socialism could not stand up to communism.” To avoid this slide, she urges a
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10 Great Movies for an American Summer 0
- Culture, Entertainment, Family, Featured, History
- June 18, 2026
Spending leisure time outside during the summer should be Priority #1. Being outdoors, even for just a half an hour or so, is healthy for the body, soul, and mind. A walk after supper, a game of catch with the kids, gardening, a picnic in the park: all provide vitamins you don’t get from a
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What Makes Someone an American?0
- Culture, Featured, History, Philosophy, Politics, Western Civilization
- June 17, 2026
Who is an American? Is it merely someone with a precious blue passport or Social Security card? Is it merely someone who accepts the basic tenets of the Declaration of Independence or thinks the Constitution is neat? It’s true that the Constitution constitutes our nation’s government. It is also true that there is likely no
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Singing the Songs of the Civil War for America’s 250 0
- Culture, Featured, History, Western Civilization
- June 12, 2026
Back in the late 1950s and early ‘60s, my brother and I used to play Civil War in the fields and woods surrounding our house. Several other “troopers” would show up from time to time, and we fired away at each other with toy rifles, dirt clods, and stones. When it rained, we’d break out
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