History

Civil War 101

For Lincoln, the restoration and preservation of the Union was the chief goal of the war. All other objectives were subordinated to that one.

Music in the 80s Sucked

In an excellent essay making the case that pop music was at its zenith in 1984, Julie Kelly writes that the era represented a patriotic […]

Up Against the Wall with Washington

Why didn’t Sir Isaac Newton, the famed English mathematician, physicist, and astronomer, invent the automobile?  Newton was a clever guy. He came up with calculus, […]