Resolution
Often our New Year's resolutions are lighthearted, and usually, the flesh being weak, they are fleeting. Before Valentine's Day or maybe even before Epiphany, we have slipped back into our old ways. B...
27 Dec 20228min
Tidings of Great Joy
At the time of the American founding, celebrations of Christmas in America varied widely, from Puritans and Quakers who shunned or ignored it, to other Protestants and Catholics who honored it in thei...
20 Dec 20227min
All of You on the Good Earth
President Kennedy told a special joint session of Congress that it was "time for a great new American Enterprise."
13 Dec 20228min
Pearl Harbor and the Art of Politics
December 7, 2021 is the 80th anniversary of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor that brought America into World War II. It is one of many days in the American year that inspire reflection on the most ...
6 Dec 20227min
Andy Ngo
After the American defeat in Vietnam in 1975, the communists confiscated the homes, businesses, property, and savings of those south Vietnamese supposed to be "counterrevolutionaries." Hundreds of tho...
29 Nov 20227min
Sarah Josepha Hale
Sarah Josepha Hale was born in New Hampshire in 1788. In an era when the average American life expectancy was forty years, she lived until 1879—91 years—and has been remembered by posterity primarily ...
22 Nov 20227min
Gettysburg
What makes Gettysburg America's most hallowed ground? A delegation of Russian historians at the height of the Cold War seemed to know, when American historians had forgotten.
15 Nov 20226min
One More for Chesty
"Chesty" Puller was a Marine's Marine. To this day, in Marine Corps boot camp, recruits are exhorted, "Do one more for Chesty! Chesty Puller never quit!" His combat service record is astonishing: he i...
8 Nov 20227min
