
Few Americans are more worthy of the big and small screen than Andrew Jackson—a poor, orphaned child of immigrants who fought in the American Revolution, moved to the frontier, and rose to become president of the United States. HBO is producing a six-hour miniseries based on Jon Meacham’s Pulitzer Prize winning book, American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
by Jarrett Stepman18 Dec 2015, 6:22 AM PST0

On December 17, the New Orleans city council voted 6 to 1 to remove “prominent Confederate statues” in the city.
by AWR Hawkins17 Dec 2015, 8:42 PM PST0

The libertarian Cato Institute gets right down to it, in a New York Post op-ed titled, “Woodrow Wilson’s racism isn’t the only reason for Princeton to shun his name.” Yes, Cato went there. The libertarian outfit, which mostly seeks to identify with Republicans and conservatives on tax and spending issues, actually threw in with left-wing radical #BlackLivesMatter-type protesters on another important matter—defending the traditional understanding of US history. But as we shall see, the traditional understanding of US history means nothing to Cato.
by Virgil6 Dec 2015, 7:39 AM PST0

Although often seen as a day to kick off the Christmas shopping season, Thanksgiving is perhaps the most deeply American holiday and its tradition is connected to the idea of “American exceptionalism.”
by Jarrett Stepman26 Nov 2015, 4:10 AM PST0

On Sunday, the Huffington Post ran an Op-Ed attacking presidential candidate Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) for claiming that Ronald Reagan won the 1980 presidential election mostly on his conservative principles.
by Jarrett Stepman23 Nov 2015, 7:55 PM PST0

The American Left has finally caught on that one of the leading lights of the early Progressive movement was a racist, segregationist, and generally unseemly fellow. Princeton’s Black Justice League protestors have urged that early-twentieth century President Woodrow Wilson’s “racist legacy” be acknowledged, and any mention of his existence purged from campus.
by Jarrett Stepman22 Nov 2015, 11:40 AM PST0

A statue of founding father and writer of the Declaration of Independence Thomas Jefferson is sparking debate at the University of Missouri, with some students demanding that the statue be removed over Jefferson’s “offensive” history as a slave owner.
by Warner Todd Huston22 Oct 2015, 5:37 PM PST0

Earlier this year, after racist terrorist Dylann Storm Roof was charged with shooting nine black people in a Charleston, South Carolina, church, the media and Democrats across the nation embarked on a crusade to wipe the Confederate flag from society.
by William Bigelow16 Oct 2015, 7:34 PM PST0

Peter Schramm, the late Professor of Political Science at Ashland University, used to tell a moving story about his immigration to the United States. As a child fleeing communist-occupied Hungary, he asked his father where the family would go. “We are going to America,” his father replied. “Why America?” Peter asked. “Because, son,” his father answered, “we were born Americans, but in the wrong place.”
by Callista Gingrich13 Oct 2015, 6:01 AM PST0

A lot has been written through the years about the assassinations of Abraham Lincoln, of John F. Kennedy, and of many others, and about the numerous conspiracy theories that lurk in the shadows of the official narratives.
by Bill Yenne21 Sep 2015, 11:13 AM PST0

Calling the city’s Confederate monuments “false history,” New Orleans’s Deputy Mayor Andy Kopplin revealed that a private citizen is footing the entire bill for the removal of four of the city’s decades-old statues erected to memorialize several Confederate leaders and one battle.
by Warner Todd Huston17 Sep 2015, 7:05 PM PST0

At least two Republican presidential candidates will stand with Founding Father Alexander Hamilton. During Wednesday’s CNN’s Republican presidential debate, candidates were asked about the proposed changes to the $10 bill and the woman with whom they would prefer to replace the country’s first treasury secretary.
by Jarrett Stepman17 Sep 2015, 12:52 PM PST0

For anyone remotely connected to Pennsylvania the question seemed absurd: “Who is this William Penn?”
by Bruce Mowday4 Sep 2015, 1:19 PM PST0

On August 30, President Barack Obama made an executive decision along with the Department of Interior to change the name of Alaska’s Mount McKinley to its Athabascan Indian name, “Denali.”
by Jarrett Stepman31 Aug 2015, 2:32 PM PST0

Julianne Moore’s life off-screen is quickly becoming a tale of everything the actress abhors. From Sarah Palin, to guns, to Civil War history relating to the Confederacy, Moore can’t keep from stating her opposition to certain people, places, and things.
by AWR Hawkins24 Aug 2015, 9:57 PM PST0

The Dickson County School District has decided to ban all flags from pickup trucks on school property. Initial reports had incorrectly stated that the officials had banned all flags at the school, but the district corrected that impression with an email to FOX13.
by William Bigelow24 Aug 2015, 6:28 PM PST0

George Zimmerman has painted a Confederate flag, which he is selling to raise money for Florida Gun Supply—the store that declared itself a “Muslim-free zone” in the wake of the Chattanooga attack.
by AWR Hawkins18 Aug 2015, 6:52 PM PST0

After Winston-Salem, NC, Councilman James Taylor informed FOX8 that some of his constituency claim the “Dixie” in the Dixie Classic Fair’s name offends them, the news station took to the streets to test Taylor’s assertion and found a quite different response.
by William Bigelow16 Aug 2015, 8:18 PM PST0

WASHINGTON — She was denounced as a “degenerate” and a “pervert,” accused of lying for money and shamed for waging a “diabolical” campaign of falsehoods against the president’s family that tore away at his legacy.
by Breitbart News13 Aug 2015, 10:00 AM PST0

WASHINGTON — For nearly a century, Democrats have honored two men as the founders of their party: Thomas Jefferson, for his visionary expression of the concept of equality, and Andrew Jackson, for his populist spirit and elevation of the common man.
by Breitbart News11 Aug 2015, 8:51 AM PST0

Seventy years ago, the B-29 Enola Gay, piloted by Paul Tibbets, Jr., dropped an atomic bomb, Little Boy, on the Japanese city of Hiroshima.
by Jarrett Stepman6 Aug 2015, 9:07 AM PST0

On July 31, US District Judge Jackson Kiser lifted a 14-year injunction barring the state of Virginia from banning Confederate flag license plates.
by AWR Hawkins2 Aug 2015, 5:38 PM PST0

The company behind Advanced Placement courses for U.S. high school students will release a revision to the standards for AP U.S. history on Thursday morning, after significant pushback from conservatives who claimed the redesigned course framework, released last year, painted American history in too negative a light.
by Breitbart News30 Jul 2015, 8:06 AM PST0

JAMESTOWN, Va. — When his friends buried Capt. Gabriel Archer here about 1609, they dug his grave inside a church, lowered his coffin into the ground and placed a sealed silver box on the lid.
by Breitbart News29 Jul 2015, 7:30 AM PST0

On this day, in 1866, the 14th Amendment to the United States Constitution was finally certified by Secretary of State William H. Seward. The amendment guarantees that no state “shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law.”
by Jarrett Stepman28 Jul 2015, 9:35 AM PST0