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Rome Sweet Rome: When Romans Stopped Being Romans (Part 2)
Part Two: When Romans Stopped Being Roman Imagine yourself living somewhere in the Roman Empire around A.D. 400. Your grandfather keeps telling you Rome isn’t what it used to be.…
Read MoreAmerica: Just Another Ancient Rome? (Part 1)
Rome didn’t fall in a day. That’s a historical myth. On September 4, A.D. 476, the Western Roman Empire came to an end. At least that’s the date historians eventually…
Read MoreLiberating the Black: Why the Civil War Wasn’t Enough (Part 3)
Abraham Lincoln knew there was only one way to correct the grievous, sinful injustice of slavery. Furthermore, he knew it would likely require either a miracle from God or a war…
Read MoreJuneteenth: Perfecting the Republic (Part 2)
.. Let’s be honest: the Civil War was far from “civil.” And this social conflict composes more than a North-South geography, despite the narrative of the Mason-Dixon line. Neither was…
Read MoreSeparation of Church and State? Not Originally!
Over the past 60 years, American culture has slowly abandoned it’s Judeo-Christian moorings and became more secular. But it wasn’t always that way. In fact, for nearly two centuries, America…
Read MoreThe French vs. American Revolution: Why Religion Made a Lasting Difference
“What is liberty without wisdom and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evil; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without restraint.” “Men are qualified for civil…
Read MoreJuly 8, 1835: The Day a Judge, the Liberty Bell and the Founding Era Ended
One night, a weary stranger sought refuge in a rural tavern. Exhausted and hungry, he longed for solitude but soon realized he had interrupted a heated debate on the “merits…
Read MoreAmerica the Secular? Flipping the Script on the Founding of a Nation
Since the 1980s, it’s been a popular refrain to refer to America’s founding as secular in nature. Proponents of secularism often use selective quotes to promote their nonreligious agendas (1).…
Read MoreThe Dred Scott Decision: The Supreme Court’s “Greatest Self-Inflicted Wound”
Many legal scholars consider the Dred Scott decision the worst opinion of the U.S. Supreme Court. Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes called it the Supreme Court’s “greatest self-inflicted wound.” The…
Read MoreJohn Locke: How a Great Philosopher Influenced the Founding of America
The Founding Fathers of the United States of America had many influences, but possibly none more than John Locke (1632-1704). Thomas Jefferson, Alexander Hamilton and John Madison revered Locke. John…
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