Honorable Mentions: Sacajawea and Pocahontas, two Native American women, neither of whom (so far as we know) ever claimed to be a white woman from Massachusetts. This article is also available here: https://tinyurl.com/yt4t358j.

A forgotten high school football game played 15 years ago in Texas reveals the power of encouragement.

The Grimké sisters challenged a misconception that was widespread in their time and that persists today: that God is either silent on slavery or in support of it.

No credible person today denies that this holocaust occurred. But in March 1933, Jones was shocked to find his revelations denounced by veteran and highly-respected journalists.

He was an enemy of what tears people and countries down: envy, hatred, idleness, arrogance, and disrespect for life and property.

The sad reality is that Democrats are up to their eyeballs in groupthink, collectivism, the distortion of our past and vote-buying victimhood. Indeed, it seems they create victims so they can then posture as their saviors.

Supreme Court Justice Robert H. Jackson said, “It is not the function of the government to keep the citizen from falling into error; it is the function of the citizen to keep the government from falling into error.”

Something Gary Cooper said decades ago seems even wiser advice today: “Our country is a young country that just has to make up its mind to be itself again."

The widespread sin of “presentism” poisons our understanding of such hot-button topics as slavery.

If we are to assess slavery and its abolition accurately, we must see them in their fullest historical and cultural contexts. We ought to avoid the temptation to assume that everything about slavery’s history is clear-cut and—pardon the double meaning—black and white.

Polish history is replete with heroic men and women who stood firm against tyranny. I am very proud to have met so many of them. Stefan Kisielewski will always be one of my favorites.

Dorothy Thompson’s blistering attacks on political and economic authoritarianism abroad mirrored what she often said about similar developments here in America.

Black Americans ought to love Calvin Coolidge. This article is also available here: https://tinyurl.com/2p8xtkvd.

In the 1892 presidential election, the better man narrowly lost in Montana.

Though she didn’t at first believe that Hitler would talk his way to power, she more than made up for lost time once he did.

Now and everywhere, as in the 18th Century in Britain, lovers of freedom must recognize and appreciate those who man the barricades.

We need a break from the nastiness, the polarization, the dirty business of accentuating faults in each other and claiming victimhood. We need a moral and spiritual lift.

Americans can be thankful that the cynical effort to corrupt the Court in 1937 was defeated by principled legislators like Montana’s Burton K. Wheeler.

If you are ever asked if you are “for the poor” or “for the rich,” don’t go for the bait. Life is complex. Individuals are unique. Generalities are a trap. Reject the childish thinking of collectivists.

Knowing what the right thing is and possessing the mettle to do it are two distinct traits. They aren’t always present within the same person. A person’s character is what makes all the difference.