2+ week, 5+ day ago   (335+ words) The influence of the reparations movement has led to fallacious pronouncements on historic Quaker philanthropy. The only known image of Elizabeth Heyrick (1769-1831), the Quaker anti-slavery activist, who, in the 1820s, first popularised the idea of ‘immediate emancipation’ for slaves in the…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (94+ words) Lauren Zuravel /September 4, 2026 This is at the heart of American exceptionalism. Differences in beliefs, backgrounds, and ancestries were built into the very foundation of our covenant. We must allow ourselves to truly embrace our nation’s de facto motto, that out…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago   (598+ words) By Mark Tooley on August 24, 2026 A recent biography of Vietnam era Defense secretary Robert McNamara, McNamara at War: A New History by William Taubman and Philip Taubman, offers timeless lessons in Christian Realism. A universally acclaimed brilliant Ford Motors executive,…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago   (1583+ words) Designed by Black architect Dave Benjamin West in 1894, First Baptist Church became a central hub of Montgomery’s African American community. Its red-brick Gothic Revival design is striking, but its connection to the Civil Rights Movement gives the building an even…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (293+ words) Valerie is Ideas Editor at The Dispatch, based in New York City. Prior to joining the company in 2025, she worked at The New York Times and NewsGuard Technologies, and she is currently a Novak Fellow through The Fund for American…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago   (780+ words) What is America, really? Are these United States really 50 states united around a common purpose and striving for the common good? Increasingly, it seems like we’re a fractured mirror reflecting conflicting self-mythologizing as the old understandings and agreements are revealed…...

4+ week, 1+ day ago   (462+ words) A hilltop church in a County Durham village has stood watch over the surrounding countryside for almost 900 years. The historical site has links to medieval bishops, a leper's squint and one of the county's most celebrated historians. The Church of…...

4+ day, 4+ hour ago   (124+ words) At Colonial Michilimackinac, costumed interpreters show how a 1700s public-private partnership brought together uniformed British troops and enterprising fur traders. This means that the buildings within the stockaded walls of the fort housed officers, soldiers, and civilians, living next door to…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago   (912+ words) The Linen Hall library in Belfast hosted a panel discussion as part of its USA-NI 250 exhibition programme, marking the 250th anniversary of the American Declaration of Independence. The event, “The American Declaration of Independence: American and Ulster Contexts, Links and Legacies,…...

4+ day, 40+ min ago   (530+ words) Most people know the heroic and statesman elements of George Washington’s stewardship of our nation in the formation and early days of the United States. Washington was commander of the Continental Army that defeated the British in the Revolutionary War,…...