By: J. David Gowdy On November 19, 1863, four and a half months after the Union armies defeated those of the Confederacy at the Battle of Ge...

“World War I – known at the time as “The Great War” - officially ended when the Treaty of Versailles was signed on June 28, 1919, in the Pal...

By: J. David Gowdy What permanently ended slavery in America was the very close vote in the House of Representatives over the Thirteenth Ame...

By Tony Williams The second installment of my series of essays on The Federalist will examine the understanding of human nature pre...

By: Tony Williams         On September 17, 1787, at the conclusion of the Constitutional Convention in the Philadelphia statehouse, Be...

In the months leading up to the adoption of the Declaration of Independence, John Adams, who was a delegate to the Continental Congress i...

“…I am for doing good to the poor, but I differ in opinion of the means.—I think the best way of doing good to the poor, is not ...