History

"I know you would not turn your faces from your foes, but will, undauntedly, press forward, until tyranny is trodden under foot, and you have fixed your adored goddess Liberty, on the American throne." —Dr. Joseph Warren

On the anniversary of William F. Buckley’s death, conservatives will spend the week pretending that he was a man of principle, civility, dignity. He was not.

Washington recognized that we must choose daily to support freedom. Otherwise, we lose it, bit by bit, to those who favor force and tyranny.

A portrait of the great 19th-century intellectual who held that “Reason is the light, the sun, of the brain . . . the compass of the mind, the ever-constant Northern Star.”

Frederick Douglass’s speech on the virtues of “men who are what they are, without the aid of any favoring conditions by which other men usually rise in the world and achieve great results.”

Examines the development of Douglass's view of what, in principle, an individual must do in order to live as a free, independent human being.

RooseveltCare makes clear that resolving the debt crisis by ending the entitlement state is imperative both morally and practically.

Even after the Battles of Lexington and Concord, many Americans held that the colonies would reconcile peacefully with Britain. Paine explained otherwise.

General John Stark did more than help America win the Revolutionary War. He was an exemplar of that quintessential American virtue: independence.

The Boston Tea Party and being “merry . . . at the idea of making so large a cup of tea for the fishes.”