Seriously?! 665 students out of 30,000 have made such an uproar over the conquistador seal for the University of New Mexico. Photo by Ken Lund Photo by Ken Lund
Topic: U.S. history
NYU Law Professor Claims America is in “a Post-Genocidal Society” Today at Commencement
At the University of Delaware, no less: “We are a post-genocidal society. On this continent there were native people, indigenous people, Native Americans, and they were slaughtered by the millions … by white settlers,” Stevenson, a…
Scholar: To Protect Intellectual Diversity, There has to be Financial Repercussions to Push the Left
From the College Fix: Historian Kim Holmes told The College Fix he wrote The Closing of the Liberal Mind: How Groupthink and Intolerance Define the Left “to point to the unique nature of the postmodern…
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Why Does the Cold War Matter Today?
“Those who forget the past are condemned to repeat it.” On May 3, 2016, Elizabeth Edwards Spalding, an author and associate professor of Government at Claremont McKenna College, repeated this quote while discussing her newly…
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The Forgotten Story of the Revolutionary War
On April 8, 2016, military historian and author Patrick K. O’Donnell spoke at the Heritage Foundation to discuss his book “Washington’s Immortals,” a book about the forgotten people and battles in the revolutionary war. The…
PC Police Lose Battle over Renaming UConn’s Calhoun College
From the Campus Reform: Yale University is refusing to replace pro-slavery Senator John Calhoun (D-S.C.) as the namesake of Calhoun College, but is dropping the title of “master” to avoid unintentionally evoking associations with slavery…
The Left is Down on Reagan
Even when they are trying to be even-handed, academics can’t hide their biases. “While it is certainly true that the public has a decidedly negative view on ‘the way things are going in the country…
How Reagan Won the Cold War
Ronald Reagan’s legacy, long after his passing, continues to be distorted by the leftist academic community, one professor noted at a panel discussion held at the Heritage Foundation. Francis Marlo, an associate professor of International…
Stanford Students Reject Western Civilization Requirement for Graduation
Campus Reform reported: Stanford University students rejected a resolution during their spring election that would have brought Western Civilization courses back to their curriculum. Only 14 percent of the student body voted in favor of…
Forgotten History of America’s Economic Past
One of the nice things about going to a meeting of actual scholars, as opposed to academics who dominate most academic associations, is that you get to hear some forgotten history you might otherwise be…