Research for "The Glenn Beck Program" this week:
The Declaration of Independence (1776)
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights.
Articles of Confederation (1777)
The Articles of Confederation were adopted by the Continental Congress on November 15, 1777. This document served as the United States' first constitution. It was in force from March 1, 1781, until 1789, when the present-day Constitution went into effect.
Northwest Ordinance (1787)
The Northwest Ordinance chartered a government for the Northwest Territory, provided a method for admitting new states to the Union from the territory, and listed a bill of rights guaranteed in the territory.
Constitution Annotated: Article I
Overview of Article I, Legislative Branch.
The Interactive Constitution
Learn about the text, history, and meaning of the U.S. Constitution from leading scholars of diverse legal and philosophical perspectives.
The dark shadow of the Articles of Confederation
If there is a lesson in the crisis that the nation is experiencing today, in which states do their own thing, paying minimal attention to the federal government or national issues, it is that our dark, historic roots are hauntingly alive.
Wikipedia: End of slavery in the United States
Everything on Wiki is true, and there is no agenda.
Video: What you might not know about the Declaration of Independence
Everything on YouTube is true, and there is no agenda.
How the New York Times Helped Hide Stalin’s Mass Murders in Ukraine
Journalism doesn’t have to stifle the truth in the service of fashionable causes and personal narcissism. It’s a choice.
NY Times 1933: Russians hungry, but not starving
Russians and foreign observers in country see no ground for predictions of disaster.
NY Mag 1931: The Russian Looks At The World
A patient man, he hates change, doubts international ideals, thinks mostly about his next meal, envies the Americans, distrusts Europe and is beginning to rise in self-esteem.
The Progressivism of America’s Founding
Part five of the Progressive Tradition Series examines the relationship between progressivism and America's founding.
The Progressive Era to the New Era, 1900-1929
We should not accept social life as it has “trickled down to us,” the young journalist Walter Lippmann wrote soon after the twentieth century began. “We have to deal with it deliberately, devise its social organization ... educate and control it.”
What Solzhenitsyn Understood
Detecting the same incompetence and self-satisfaction among the liberals of the Provisional Government in 1917 and the reformers of the post-Soviet era in the 1990s, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn feared another descent into authoritarian rule.