Dear friends and fellow citizens,  From Thomas Jefferson's First Inaugural Address March 4, 1801. "But every difference of opinion is not a difference of principle. We have called by different names brethren […]

Dear friends, President James Monroe, from his inaugural address given March 28, 1817: "What raised us to the present happy state? How did we accomplish the Revolution? How remedy the defects of […]

Dear friends, In recent days we have witnessed the continued acknowledgement and celebration of some of the oldest religious traditions in human history. The timeline of our society is not just […]

Dear friends, There was a time when it was routine to sit and listen to seniors and to read voraciously about the past. Today’s society digests pop culture analysis of history […]