Most Americans recognize a few of the Founding Fathers—Washington, Jefferson, Madison, Hamilton, Adams, Franklin—but what about some of the important but forgotten men who have been lost to time? They have great stories that need to be told. Here are ten whose fantastic lives are in many ways better than fiction.
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A high school history teacher asked me this question: How do you teach Andrew Jackson, but more importantly, how do you incorporate John C. Calhoun into a unit on Andrew Jackson? I love answering these types of questions. I have already prepackaged my “Jacksonian America” lecture at McClanahan Academy, so if you want my full spin on the topic, get that class. Jackson is a …more
The only certain things in life are death, taxes, and “conservative” historian Allen Guelzo calling Robert E. Lee a traitor. In fact, his recent book makes that clear on the first page. Guelzo is a self described Yankee who bleeds blue and genuflects to his statue of Abraham Lincoln. That last part I made up, but he does call himself a Yankee. That means no …more
They don’t like them, that is unless they glorify some underrepresented group in America. In other words, wokies think there are too many monuments to white men, and in particular white men who owned slaves or they think were racist. Tearing down monuments is an indirect (and somewhat passive aggressive) response to “right wing” America. They don’t like you so they want to tear down …more
