Bicentennial of the Bill of Rights
On December 15, we celebrate the Bicentennial of the ratification of the Bill of Rights. This great document is relatively noncontroversial today, but two centuries ago, it was…
Category: U.S. History
Two Watersheds: Pearl Harbor and the New World Order
Pearl Harbor Day, December 7, 1941, marked a turning point in American history. In response to President Franklin Roosevelt’s call to avenge the “date which will live in…
The Radical Goals of the Feminists — December 1991
School Controversies Harm Education — October 1991
Who Are the Real Censors? — August 1990
The Panama Canal Issue Revisited
PBS television last month aired a two-hour program attempting to justify the giving away of our U.S. Canal at Panama by the Jimmy Carter Administration in 1978, a…
The Failure of Our Monopoly School System — June 1990
The Anti-Communists Were Right, After All — April 1990
Gone With the Wind Revisited
So often, nostalgia about events and persons of our youth make them seem better and larger than life. We remember the special hand-beaten cake that Grandmother used to…
The 25th Anniversary of Kennedy’s Assassination
For those of us who lived through the dramatic events of November 22, 1963, the many recent television programs revisiting the Kennedy assassination had a morbid fascination. There…