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New Heritage Series Profiles Woodrow Wilson: The Godfather of Liberalism
Woodrow Wilson came to Washington in 1913, and he never left. He’s the only President buried in D.C. He became the first President since John Adams to personally address Congress, thus creating the...
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Herbert Croly: Bad Prose, Even Worse Ideas
Writers of the world, rejoice: It turns out we don’t have to write well to write powerfully. Consider Herbert Croly. Few Americans in 2013 are familiar with the name. But 100 years ago, Croly was...
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The Diversity of the Founding
World History Archive/Newscom In the latest paper in the Makers of American Political Thought series, Colleen Sheehan looks at the long career of James Madison. In it, we see that “diversity” was a key...
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Reagan and the 1980s: Back to the Future
Newscom Fans of pop culture and pop history are enjoying a documentary series on the National Geographic Channel: The ’80s, The Decade That Made Us. A recent installment focused on Ronald Reagan’s...
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What Would Ben Franklin Tweet?
Ken Welsh/ZUMA Press/Newscom Benjamin Franklin would have been an excellent blogger. And he would have enjoyed using Twitter. He was the sharpest communicator of his time, so profound that many of his...
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