The 2020 presidential election between Donald Trump and Joe Biden stands as one of the most contentious in recent memory. President Trump...

In the decades leading up to the Civil War, animosity and division grew between various groups, and everything became a tool to be used...

Recently, the United States Supreme Court handed down two significant decisions that warrant the attention of every American. In a 6-3...

My hometown of Pickens, South Carolina, embodies the Jeffersonian ideal of yeoman farmers living in peaceful seclusion, far removed from...

In contemporary American politics, there is a prevalent notion that the founding of America was solely rooted in Christianity. While...

Review by Michael A. Smith (Delivered by Dr. Jon Butler as part of the Joseph T. Stukes Lectures at Erskine College, Delivered March 16,...

Introduction Most nominal students of history are aware of the Great Depression that began with the Stock Market Crash of 1929. While...

Introduction The greatest doors in history often hang on the smallest of hinges. Western history is replete with examples, but no where...

Missed Connections in Labor Assessment in the Post Bellam period in the United States following the Civil War Nowhere in American history...

Charles H. Townes, winner of the 1964 Nobel Prize in Physics and the 2005 Templeton Prize for the Advancement of Religion embodies the...

Michael A. Smith revised July 5, 2023 Thomas Jefferson, who if you measured him by today’s religious standards, was the most...

Full Sail is my term that reminds us of the old cutter sailing ships when all their sails are open and turned to catch every breath of...

Vietnam was the first war that I lived through. As a teen anxiously approaching 18 years old and the draft, the 1970s were years of...

The COVID pandemic has highlighted a more threatening problem and one that is easily ignored: population decline around the world. Long...

Observing the pace at which influencers and thought leaders adapt to new dynamics can be engaging in times of tremendous change. Some may...

The concept of liberty is as old as mankind, tracing back to the earliest of recorded history, and following suite up to the modern era....

Have you ever thought about how we came to be here in America? As a history teacher, I have always believed that the largest doors often...