American Thinker By Craig Seibert In 1826, Americans did not see the men's passing away 50 years after their Declaration of Independence as mere coincidence, but as deeply symbolic.
Aired On: 7/7/2026
Americans may think they know a lot about the Declaration of Independence, but many of those ideas are elitist and wrong, as historian Woody Holton explains.
How can the United States have an America First foreign policy, or even maintain its...
How can the United States have an America First foreign policy, or even maintain its own sovereignty, if foreign powers seduce or enrich citizens and policymakers to influence decisions? So “insidious” was the problem in George Washington’s time that the first president warned about it in his 1796 Farewell Address . Britain, France, and other empires were buying influence within the new American republic, fueling factions against one another to the foreign power’s own advantage. Most Americans, if they know about the Farewell Address at all, can only cite Washington’s caution against “entangling alliances” abroad. The first president’s argument went far more deeply than that. His greater concern was foreign subversion of…Open
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The eminent historian died last week. The post Gordon Wood, the Bard of the American Revolution appeared first on The American Conservative .
Culture Gordon Wood, the Bard of the American Revolution The eminent historian died last week. The preeminent historian of the American Founding, Gordon Wood, died last week as the result of a traffic accident. Wood, a long-time professor at Brown University, had a profound and prolific effect upon the historiography of the American Revolution and the Founding in an academic career spanning six decades. Significantly, he was the first leading historian to emphasize the importance of republican thought and principles, both classical and modern, to 18th-century America, a tradition that later gave way to the totalizing force of equality…Open
Richard Vague’s new book provides an interesting look at the economic history of the early U.S. but fails as a biography. The post Financing the American Revolution appeared first on The American Conservative .
Books Financing the American Revolution Richard Vague’s new book provides an interesting look at the economic history of the early U.S. but fails as a biography. The Banker Who Made America: Thomas Willing and the Rise of the American Financial Aristocracy, 1731–1821 by Richard Vague. Polity. 448 pages Thomas Willing is a name that few people, even those well-versed in the history of the American Revolution, will probably recognize. Those who do will likely associate Willing with only two achievements: voting against American independence as a Pennsylvania delegate to the Continental Congress of 1776, and serving as the head of…Open
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WEDNESDAY NIGHT ... CLARENCE THOMAS TORCHES PROGRESSIVISM FOR BETRAYING THE AMERICAN FOUNDING ... ABC: Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas blasts progressivism as threat to America Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas on Wednesday delivered a televised broadside against progressivism, a political philosophy he described as an existential threat to America and the principles that founded it 250 years ago.