In April 1775, William Thompson, a man rarely if ever mentioned in American history books, became the first commissioned colonel in the Continental Army of a rifle battalion in the 1st Pennsylvania Regiment. The men who served with him were German, Irish and Scottish settlers. They were ...
Buried inside a new documentary about the women’s liberation movement is a gem that lands like a ton of bricks. “Dear Ms.: A revolution in print” blends archival footage with recent interviews of the founders behind the feminist movement’s flagship magazine, tracing back to 1972. At ...
Not many people today remember the exhilaration so many Americans felt after Israel’s victory in the Six-Day War in June 1967. You will not encounter much in the way of exhilaration in similar milieus today at Israel’s multifront and even more astonishing victory, capped off by the U.S. ...
Getting ready for the great celebration next year of America’s 250th anniversary, Gallup serves up sobering data. Per polling just released by Gallup, only 58% of Americans now say they are “extremely proud” or “very proud” to be an American. When Gallup first asked this question ...
I refuse to try to build any more precious childhood memories for my kids. I’m just giving them fuel for the therapist’s office (and I’m sure they already have enough of that). The camel’s back-breaking straw came the other day, when my husband and I took our kids to an open-air ...
The U.S. and Canada have been stuck in a long-term marriage of convenience. But now Canada is finally starting to date around, even if the two still have to share the same continental roof. Just as Canada prepared to implement a long-awaited 3 percent tax this week on Canadian revenues over ...