The Christmas Truce of 1914
What if they called a war and peace broke out instead? That's exactly what happened during the Christmas season of 1914 when the soldiers themselves called a truce and, had it...
History
The Communist Agent Who Caused Pearl Harbor — and Global Economic Havoc
CFR author Benn Steil admits Soviet agent Harry Dexter White, the top economic advisor to FDR and the architect of the Bretton Woods Conference that created the IMF and World Bank,...
December 4, 1945: The Day the Senate Surrendered Our Sovereignty
On December 4, 1945, the United States Senate passed the United Nations Participation Act, committing the United States to full, active participation in the United Nations. ...
Daily Ration Turned Remembrance: Five Grains of Pilgrim Corn
On the first Thanksgiving Day, the Pilgrims began a custom of placing five grains of corn at the table so that the reason for their rejoicing might not be forgotten. Five...
History Still Casts Doubts on the Warren Commission Report
Whether Oswald was, in fact, the lone killer of President John F. Kennedy, part of a conspiracy, and/or the fall guy or "patsy" he claimed to be, there remain half a...
Lincoln’s Rewrite of the Declaration of Independence
Six score and 30 years ago, the 16th president of the United States delivered an address at the site of the major Civil War battle in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania ...
Washington’s Farewell Address: Beware of “Tools and Dupes”
George Washington delivered his famous Farewell Address 217 years ago on September 19. ...
Have We Forgotten the Declaration of Independence?
Our contemporary federal government is at least as tyrannical as the government of England in 1776, yet we continue to suffer the "long train of abuses." By Joe Wolverton, II, J.D....
An American Family and the Civil War
In the days immediately preceding the U.S. Civil War, strongly held personal beliefs drove families apart as members took sides. When war began, suffering visited all. ...
Secrecy and States’ Rights: The Constitutional Convention of 1787 Begins
On May 29, 1787, the delegates gathered at the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia got down to the business of hammering out a government for the United States of America. ...
Republics & Democracies
"I personally think that ... democracy is a weapon of demagoguery and a perennial fraud. I think that a constitutional republic is the best of all forms of government man has...
Ableman v. Booth: How State Nullification Can Defy Tyrannical Government
In 1854, Wisconsin rejected the federal Fugitive Slave Act, which mandated Northern states return Southern slaves without due process, demonstrating both the validity and usefulness of nullification. ...
Waco After 20 Years: A Warning Against Unrestrained Government
April 19 marks the 20th anniversary of the Waco, Texas, massacre of Branch Davidian church members at the organization's Mount Carmel compound. Some 82 Davidians (including 26 children) and four ATF...
On This Day in 1775: The “Midnight Ride of Paul Revere”
April 18 is the 238th anniversary of the ride of Paul Revere to warn patriots of the march of British soldiers toward Lexington and Concord. ...
75th Anniversary of the Anschluss Election
Today is the 75th anniversary of the infamous rigged Anschluss election, where 99 percent of German voters supposedly approved the Nazi takeover of Austria. ...