Collecting My Thoughts

Interview with Doris Kearns Goodwin for Echoes Magazine, July and August 2025, p. 34.  "Lincoln was worried as the Revolutionary genera...

I stopped at the National Archives site today just because I looked at one of the pdf records from the JFK files. But from there I got lost ...

I can't imagine why the Democrats are so fearful of being dragged back to the era of  personal responsibility,  merit,  Judeo-Christian ...

"Paul Johnson, prolific journalist and best-selling popular historian, has died at 94 . The range of his writing’s subject matter was a...

As my friends and family know, I've been writing this blog for almost 20 years (began October 2003). That's how I met some nice peop...

Under the executive order as US President, Donald Trump established a 20-member group serving a two-year term, which is to write a report o...

Nearly 60 years ago, we had real bi-partisanship. 40% of the House Democrats VOTED AGAINST the Civil Rights Act of 1964, while 80% of Republ...

"The fourth Commandment: “Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long in the land which the Lord your God gives you.”...

The New York Times has been perpetrating a fraud. “Gordon Wood, one of the USA’s leading historians of the Revolutionary War, has been sha...

"When I mentioned to my liberal wife that my next book would be dedicated to the defense of patriotism, as an antidote to growing divis...

“Given the myriad crises our country now confronts, who would have guessed that among them would be how we teach American history?  Neverthe...

Today, September 12, marks the founding of a small but mighty organization that helped change the direction of our country--the Intercollegi...

Anyone can change.  Why not just be honest about your past in slavery, KKK, Jim Crow, civil rights, woman's rights? The DNC may be incap...

I was still a Democrat in 1994 and didn't change my registration until 2000.  The evidence from 1994 is that the worm was starting to tu...

  Paul Johnson is a very fine historian—love his “A History of the American People,” and he’s British. I missed what he published in Apr...

From What Hath God Wrought by Daniel Walker Howe. Many of our founding fathers were Freemasons, including George Washington and Benjamin Fr...

No, democracy wasn't invented by the Founding Fathers nor the indigenous peoples, who had many cultures and languages. They relied on ...

"Having an outdoor privy signified a level of decency above those who simply relieved themselves in the woods or fields. Indoor light w...

The Boston Tea Party was a nonviolent political protest by the Sons of Liberty in Boston, on December 16, 1773. The Tea Party became an icon...

Emmett Till? Lynched about 60 years ago? When Republicans were trying to pass anti-lynching laws and Democrats wouldn't support them. Ap...