American Founding
“Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death” ~ The…
Gentlemen may cry, Peace, Peace—but there is no peace. The war is actually begun! Is life so dear,…
American History on the Banks of the Potomac
Across the mighty Potomac sits the capital of our once noble and humane republic, founded upon the…
The Articles of Confederation and State Sovereignty ~…
Article II of the Articles of Confederation codified that one of the purposes of the American…
George Washington and the “Gift of Silence”…
George Washington, the great actor, was playing his part in a great drama, not just for Americans…
A Warning About the Constitution ~ The Imaginative…
The time may come when it shall be the duty of a State, in order to preserve itself from the…
James Otis, Then and Now ~ The Imaginative Conservative
Going back to the first principles of the Founding, one finds that the Founders talked unceasingly…
Thomas Jefferson and “A Little Rebellion Now and…
Nowhere to be seen now are the old Jeffersonians, once a major American type, rebellious men who…
Old Whig ~ The Imaginative Conservative
In the Whig view to which Edmund Burke subscribed, the validity of law is independent of its…
The Legacy of Forrest McDonald ~ The Imaginative…
Forrest McDonald demonstrated that the historian above all must be a pragmatist who looks at the…
Toast the New Year as the Founders Did ~ The…
Think that Franklin and Jefferson celebrated the victory at Yorktown with a cheap jug of Wal-Mart…
