Soul of Freedom
Every year in August, the oldest synagogue in America—Touro Synagogue in Newport, Rhode Island—holds a public reading of a letter written by George Washington to the congregation early in his first te...
10 Aug 20217min
God Bless America
Israel Beilin was five years old when he and his family arrived in New York and, like the rest of the family, he spoke only Yiddish. With the help of Ellis Island clerks, printing accidents, and his o...
3 Aug 20217min
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Isabella Beecher was outraged like many of her Boston neighbors by the passage of the Fugitive Slave Law 1850. The new law, part of the Compromise of 1850, required citizens in free states to assist i...
27 Jul 20216min
The Anti-slavery Constitution [3 of 3]
Among the many challenges to the statesmanship of the framers of the Constitution, none was more fundamental or intractable than the problem of slavery. On August 21 the Constitutional Convention, mee...
20 Jul 20216min
Anti-slavery Declaration [2 of 3]
Jefferson drafted the Declaration, a committee reviewed it, corrections were made, and on July 2-4, Congress—in the midst of much other pressing business of fighting a war—edited it into the final for...
13 Jul 20216min
Anti-slavery Revolution [1 of 3]
Slavery has been around since the beginning of human history. It was practiced among the native peoples of north America before and after Europeans arrived, and it was legal in every American colony i...
6 Jul 20216min
Independence Forever!
Thomas Jefferson and John Adams celebrate their last Fourth of July.
29 Jun 20215min
Our Finest Hour
America's greatest enemy is not the Chinese or the Russians, or some other foreign tyranny—though they might indeed kill us if we continue so fecklessly to defend ourselves. But what will they kill? T...
22 Jun 20216min
