History

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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War Is a Weather Report 0
- Featured, Entertainment, History, International, Western Civilization
- June 10, 2026
For the past 80+ years, we’ve been exposed to what happened on D-Day from virtually every conceivable angle – the beaches, the boats, and, of course, the bloodshed. But we haven’t been given enough insight into the internal decisions and tensions that the Allied forces went through during WWII. “Pressure,” directed by Anthony Maras and adapted from David
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Here’s What Families Should Read for AMERICA250 0
- Culture, Family, Featured, History, Literature, MomThink, Western Civilization
- June 8, 2026
Second Lady Usha Vance just announced her annual summer reading challenge for the nation’s children in grades K–8. According to Vance, the challenge is simple, requiring children to read only 12 books over the summer in order to receive several prizes and a chance to visit the White House. In a time when only a third of the
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Looking Back Makes It Easier To Look up With Hope 0
- Culture, Featured, History, Western Civilization
- June 8, 2026
At a recent Sunday Mass, the priest introduced an unfamiliar word: anagoge (pronounced AN-uh-goh-gee). It’s used today to mean a spiritual or allegorical interpretation, usually of Scripture, but he used anagoge in its original Greek sense, “a leading upward.” He then encouraged us to look upward more often, even literally, to the heavens rather than
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8 Life Lessons From Dante’s Inferno 0
- Culture, Featured, History, Literature, Religion, Western Civilization
- May 14, 2026
Despite its linguistic beauty and political intrigue, Dante’s “Divine Comedy” is a work of profound theological depth. It reflects the coherence and richness of Medieval Christian philosophy and theology. “Inferno” the first of three sections in the “Divine Comedy,” follows “the pilgrim” as he journeys through Hell, providing insightful commentary on the nature of sin
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