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Good work by CNN to report on vandalism of monuments since Charlottesville’s mob violence last week. By CNN’s count, eleven monuments of varying historical significance have been vandalized since the violence in Charlottesville, Virginia, which claimed the life of one civilian. Seven of the vandalized monuments highlight the role of the Confederacy in U.S. history, […]

Unidentified vandals burned and vandalized a bust of U.S. President Abraham Lincoln last week, after a lot of charged rhetoric and outrage after violence in Charlottesville, Virginia. Antifa, or anti-fascist protesters, squared off against white supremacists and neo-Nazis in the Virginia college town and it led to one woman’s death after being hit by a […]

An editor at VICE News wrote an op-ed calling for the removal of Mount Rushmore, in light of the controversies about Confederacy memorials, statues, plaques and monuments. Why did the editor call for this? The editor wondered if any American president was worth memorializing on Mount Rushmore, so why not get rid of the entire […]

Among all of the hot takes, outrage and grief after the Charlottesville rally-turned-deadly-incident, a measured take and viewpoint by a leader of a NAACP Pennsylvania chapter sought to restore calm. Esther Lee, chapter president of the NAACP in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, pointed out that history is done and over with and it was tragic how someone […]

A survey of historians of American presidents ranked the following as the top five presidents: Abraham Lincoln George Washington Theodore “Teddy” Roosevelt Franklin Delano Roosevelt, or “FDR” Dwight D. Eisenhower, or “Ike” Obama made the list as the twelfth-best president and George W. Bush was ranked thirty-third. Bill Clinton climbed up to fifteenth. As an aside, […]

We at Accuracy in Media recognize the sacrifices made on that day, where U.S. servicemen died in Pearl Harbor when Japanese bombers attacked the U.S. fleet stationed there. We remember December 7th, 1941 through the words of Ronald Reagan in 1987: Proclamation 5751 — National Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day, 1987 December 7, 1987 By the […]

This from our friends at AIA: From Campus Reform: Campus Reform initially reported on the display’s hostility towards the Pilgrims, promoting “facts” such as “Native Americans provided most of the food but naturally the white settlers took credit” and “the majority of pilgrims couldn’t farm or build anything.” Now, the board has been updated with […]

Below is a portion of a great piece at the National Review on why Christopher Columbus is important to American history and idea of American exceptionalism: One man, two narratives: 1. Born to a working-class wool weaver in the port city of Genoa, Italy, Cristoforo Colombo apprenticed as a sailor and went to sea as […]

Boston and Cleveland have proposed a change to ‘Indigenous Peoples Day’ from ‘Columbus Day’, while Cincinnati rejected the name change. Other cities, such as Phoenix, Seattle, Cambridge (Massachusetts), and Belfast (Maine), have already made the politically-correct change. Photo by edenpictures

It’s an interesting column on why a one-size-fits-all name should be offensive to Native Americans and indigenous people for putting their entire people in a general category, without giving context on their accomplishments: The emptiness of the gesture is there right in the name of the day: It’s not Tecumseh Day or Ira Hayes Day […]