History

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.”

The story of William Wilberforce is a gift to all who fight for freedom. It’s a reminder of the virtue of perseverance in righting wrongs.

Today in 1787, Alexander Hamilton published the first of the Federalist essays, which helped secure ratification of the U.S. Constitution.

Thomas Jefferson, whatever his flaws, was an intellectual giant whose key ideas lit up the world and still guide us today. Were it not for him, our world would be less bright, less free.

This is the story of Captain James Cook, the greatest navigator and explorer of his age—and perhaps of all time.

During a Q&A, Ron Chernow, author of Alexander Hamilton, receives a copy of Richard Salsman’s “America at Her Best Is Hamiltonian.”

Examines two conflicting conceptions of liberty held by various Western intellectuals and cultures in the long trek toward the modern individual rights-based ideal.