What does Independence Day - the 4th of July - mean to you?
Published: Wednesday, July 5th, 2023 @ 12:13 am
By: Diane Rufino
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There are many people who overlook the brilliance of the US Constitution. They argue that it is outdated and unfit to adequately govern such a modern nation as ours in the 21st century.
Published: Sunday, July 3rd, 2022 @ 2:54 pm
By: Diane Rufino
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Rich Lowry of National Review Online pushes back against revisionist American history.
Published: Sunday, October 31st, 2021 @ 2:28 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Brittany Bernstein of National Review Online highlights one disappointing opening-day action from the new Biden administration.
Published: Monday, January 25th, 2021 @ 12:15 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Victor Davis Hanson writes for National Review Online about the work of President Trump’s commission on American history.
Published: Sunday, January 24th, 2021 @ 5:45 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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I am truly honored to be here at the very first White House Conference on American History.
Published: Friday, September 25th, 2020 @ 12:03 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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It's the first time in American history this has happened.
Published: Tuesday, April 14th, 2020 @ 6:09 pm
By: LifeZette
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First Lady Melania Trump today donated the couture piece that she wore to the 2017 inaugural balls to the First Ladies Collection at the National Museum of American History.
Published: Sunday, October 29th, 2017 @ 3:12 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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The Life Education And Resource Network L.E.A.R.N. The largest African American pro-life network in America will hold 3 days of demonstrations culminating at the recently opened National African American History Museum in Washington DC.
Published: Saturday, October 15th, 2016 @ 11:07 am
By: Jim Kouri
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This piece contrasts Washington's willingness to step down with Obama's desire for power, and explains why it doesn't make sense
Published: Monday, August 29th, 2016 @ 4:13 am
By: Ryan Case
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I published this Blog Posting on January 1, 2009. It really is a history lesson. You remember history. They used to teach a lot of it in our schools.
Published: Saturday, August 13th, 2016 @ 11:56 pm
By: Alex J. Ortolano
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During the "Budget Battle of 1995-1996," which caused a shutdown of much of the federal government for 27 days, I was a freelance reporter for New Jersey's second biggest newspaper.
Published: Thursday, January 7th, 2016 @ 11:14 am
By: John William Pope Center
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Since the 1960s, the academic history profession has changed markedly. Traditional fields such as military history, diplomatic history, intellectual history, religious history, and political history have been deemphasized, when not completely eliminated.
Published: Sunday, June 28th, 2015 @ 6:35 am
By: John William Pope Center
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Original documents should play an important role in American history education. That's the approach from Roger Beckett, executive director of the Ashbrook Center at Ashland University. Beckett explained his preference for original historical documents over textbooks during a recent presentation...
Published: Monday, April 27th, 2015 @ 12:38 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Original documents are much more valuable than textbooks when it comes to teaching students about key issues in American history.
Published: Tuesday, December 2nd, 2014 @ 3:07 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Today many of us think of Edenton as a beautiful, quaint vacation town along the Albemarle Sound. But Edenton was a political and intellectual hub in North Carolina in the early days of the United States.
Published: Saturday, September 13th, 2014 @ 8:01 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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One of North Carolina’s largest school districts is calling on the College Board to delay for one year its new Advanced Placement U.S. History course, labeling it an inaccurate, deeply biased, revisionist view of America.
Published: Monday, August 25th, 2014 @ 8:17 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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As students head back to high school this fall, they and their parents will quickly discover that much of traditional American history taught in Advanced Placement (AP) courses for college credit is being rewritten with a distinctive left-leaning bias.
Published: Friday, July 25th, 2014 @ 2:39 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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The Department of Cultural Resources will commemorate the legacy of what were known as "Rosenwald Schools" Thursday, February 20 at 7 p.m in the Walnut Building of Wayne Community College in Goldsboro.
Published: Thursday, February 20th, 2014 @ 11:30 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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East Carolina University will kick off its commemoration of African-American History Month with an opening celebration at 5:30 p.m. Feb. 3 in Wright Auditorium.
Published: Wednesday, February 5th, 2014 @ 7:36 pm
By: ECU News Services
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I was a successful student in high school. I was one of the top students in my class, and I took multiple Advance Placement courses. I knew that my hard work had helped me form strong studying techniques. After four years in the North Carolina public high school system, I was looking forward to...
Published: Wednesday, May 29th, 2013 @ 9:15 am
By: John William Pope Center
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As should be obvious by now, North Carolina is undergoing dramatic change in 2013. A new Republican governor and legislature are pursuing new approaches to...
Published: Wednesday, May 8th, 2013 @ 4:36 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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If we look back on our grade school education, we remember being taught the very fundamentals of what went on at the Constitutional Convention.
Published: Monday, June 27th, 2011 @ 12:40 am
By: Diane Rufino
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