The Story Of “Johnny Shiloh”
A History Lesson By Greg Albaugh In May of 1861, 9 year old John Lincoln “Johnny” Clem ran away from his home in Newark, Ohio, to join the Union Army, but found the Army was not interested in signing on a 9 year old boy when the commander of the 3rd Ohio Regiment told him […]
Adam Smith Takes Cancel Culture in Hand
Caroline Breashears Last spring, cancel culture came for Adam Smith. The Slavery and Colonialism Legacy Review Group in Edinburgh interrogated Adam Smith’s links to “slavery and colonialism” and considered “reconfiguring” his statue and grave. The move was especially bizarre given Smith’s anti-slavery sentiments. As Daniel Klein observes, “For years Smith was acknowledged by British abolitionists as an […]
Historian’s Corner: The Firebombing of Japan by Victor Davis Hanson
Part Three. The Nihilist Logic of Death Column Victor Davis Hanson Once the sick dogs of war are unleashed, legalized murder has a Satanic logic of its own. In the US case, the agenda from December 8 onward was how to end the war as quickly as possible that it did not start and had […]
Laudator Temporis Acti
COLUMN By Victor Davis Hanson History is not the melodrama of faceless collectives, but a tragedy of complexities. We should not go quietly into the night and allow a current affluent, leisured and pampered generation to hijack the past, and damn it to perdition. Given the present’s own meager achievements, it has not earned the […]
160 Confederate Monuments Were Taken Down In 2020
KAYLEE GREENLEE Reporter At least 160 Confederate symbols including statues were removed from public spaces following the death of George Floyd in 2020, according to the Southern Poverty Law Center. Of the symbols removed 94 were Confederate monuments, including a statue of Confederate General Robert E. Lee that was removed from the U.S. Capitol building […]
Biden’s Disbanding of 1776 Commission Shows Left’s War on US History
Mike Gonzalez / @Gundisalvus All Americans should wish President Joe Biden well. To do otherwise would be churlish and self-defeating. It beggars belief, though, that one of his first intended acts was for his White House to take down the report issued Monday by the 1776 Commission, and on his first day as president, to disband the […]
What Really Needs to Be Fixed
By Don Jans More than two-thirds of U.S. voters say that democracy in the country needs to be fixed, according to a new Hill-HarrisX poll conducted in the lead-up to the November election. Sixty-nine percent of registered voters in the survey said democracy in the United States needs to be “fixed,” while 31 […]
Pulitzer Prize Awarded to ‘1619 Project’ Author Should Be Revoked: National Association of Scholars
BY GQ PAN The National Association of Scholars (NAS) is calling for the Pulitzer Prize Board to revoke the prize awarded to Nicole Hannah-Jones, the leading author of the New York Times’ “1619 Project.” In an open letter published Tuesday, 21 scholars and public writers urged the Board to acknowledge that it has “erred” in awarding the 2020 Prize for Commentary to […]
Why Real History Must be Taught
By Don Jans It can be called nothing but ignorance and stupidity. Ignorance is lack of knowledge or information. Stupidity is behavior that shows a lack of good sense or judgment. So many on the left are saying that President Trump will end our democracy. We were never intended to be a democracy. […]
We are being promised Slavery
By Don Jans We hold these truths to be self-evident that all men are CREATED equal are endowed by their CREATOR with certain unalienable rights, among them the right to LIFE, LIBERTY, AND THE PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS.” We have a political movement in the United States that profoundly differs with the above statement. […]
