Given her painful loss to Donald Trump, surely the most unfortunate of Kamala Harris’ verbal tics was her frequent celebration of “what can be, unburdened by what has been.”

The root story of our United States is not inscribed by the ink of institutions but by the bold strokes of individuals who dared to dream of a better tomorrow.

College students today – even students at elite colleges such as the Ivy Leagues – are not equipped to read full books, as Rose Horowitch’s recent Atlantic essay “The Elite College Students Who Can’t Read Books” revealed.

Legend has it that a crowd had gathered outside Independence Hall in Philadelphia as the deliberations of the Constitutional Convention were concluding in 1787.

For better or worse, education can shape who we are, and Thomas Jefferson knew that.

America and the world have changed enormously since the first thanksgiving 353 years ago. From a tiny coastal enclave on an untamed continent, we have grown into the mightiest, freest nation in human history.

Most histories are written about events that have actually transpired, unless they are fanciful “alternative histories.”

It seems that we sometimes forget the long struggle and the hard-won gains of the social rights movement.

Of all the subjects at the forefront of this year’s presidential campaign, we do not hear much about foreign policy.

Nellie Bowles, author of Morning After the Revolution (2024), loves San Francisco.

A few years ago now, Sheryl Sandburg of Facebook wrote a book called Lean In, which I certainly did not read, since I am a respectable academic and people like me do not read best-selling self-help books by business gurus, especially when the business is social media.

If you want to understand our contemporary politics and culture, you must have a working knowledge of the major revolutions of the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries.

Since the populist surge that gave us Brexit and the rise of Donald Trump, politics in the Western world has polarized into a distinctive stalemate

One of the greatest challenges facing the administration of US President Gerald Ford when he assumed office in 1974 was the poor state of the US economy, which was suffering from a condition dubbed stagflation – stagnation and inflation.

When it comes to celebrating Constitution Day, it may be considered atypical to think of the Declaration of Independence.

In 1967, Pepperdine College commissioned the historian and conservative man of letters Russell Kirk to write a history textbook for the southern California Christian college.

The First Ladies Association for Research and Education, FLARE, held it first national conference entitled, “In Celebration of Betty Ford’s 50th Anniversary as First Lady and Betty Ford’s 40^th Anniversary of her historic 1984 first ladies conference” on April 26, 2024, at the Gerald R. Ford Museum in Grand Rapids, Michigan.

Everyone has opinions about brisket rubs, and pitmasters like Rodney Scott have won the prestigious James Beard award.

Students today often view history as a fascinating but largely useless subject – the sort of thing you study for pleasure but not the most practical of activities.

What was Gerald R. Ford’s greatest achievement as president?