Don’t bother to count the votes for president. Coloradan Jerry L. Martin has already declared himself the winner. “It’s a win-win situation either way. We’re going to have friends in high places,” said the...
Sen. Joseph I. Lieberman of Connecticut, who is expected to be named today […]
Once upon a time in the bad old days you couldn’t graduate from most colleges and universities without taking a course in both American and European history. Nobody grumbled about it. We were prisoners...
According to legend, a lady stopped Benjamin Franklin as the Framers of our Constitution emerged from their deliberations. “What kind of a country have you given us?” the lady inquired. “A republic, Madame, if...
Just in time for the nation’s recognition of Independence Day, a Washington based nonprofit group that favors the study of liberal arts in college tossed a stink bomb into the celebration. In a sobering...
A question for you before you set off your fireworks: Who was the American general at Yorktown? You have four guesses: William Tecumseh Sherman, Ulysses S. Grant, Douglas MacArthur or George Washington. When that...
Listen up, class. We hate to spoil your holiday weekend, but an alarming new survey of American history knowledge 2/3–released just days before Independence Day, no less 2/3–suggests that the nation is in desperate...
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