Category: american history

‘History Is Not for You to Erase’: Former POW in Vietnam

Lt. Col. Orson Swindle, a former Marine Corps pilot, was a prisoner of war (POW) who spent over six years in Vietnam’s infamous Hanoi Hilton prison camp where he was subjected to deprivation, isolation, and torture. He said receiving a patriotic and faith-based education helped him survive his experience and sacrifice for his country, the…


Louisiana’s Department of Education Shifts From CRT to American Exceptionalism

Louisiana public schools are closing the door to woke ideologies in social studies curricula and turning instead to American exceptionalism. “If you look throughout the course of American history, you see that we have always been on a quest for freedom, whether it was the signers of the Declaration of Independence or the abolishment of slavery,”…


EpochTV Review: A Tale of Forgotten American History

Commentary In this episode of Crossroads, “Live Q&A: The Story of Washington Armor and America’s Forgotten History-with Tammy Lane,” host Joshua Philipp speaks with Tammy Lane, the director of the EpochTV film trilogy “Washington’s Armor.” This film series chronicles the history of the wars fought by some of the first people of the nation who were…


Trailblazing the West

Benjamin Bonneville was born in France, the godson of none other than Thomas Paine, who called the boy “Bebia.” Paine had lived with the Bonnevilles in France during much of the 1790s, so when that family fell under the persecution of a rising Napoleon, Paine invited them to live with him in the United States….


Gen. Lee: The Importance of Preserving American History

Commentary Earlier this month, a 21-foot-tall bronze statue of Robert E. Lee—perhaps the most famous monument to the Confederate general—was removed from Monument Avenue in Richmond, Virginia. Supporters of the statue’s removal, including Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam (D), hailed the event as a triumph for racial justice. The left has decided that Lee, the most…


Demonizing Our History Will Not Yield Progress

Commentary Our nation’s past year of reckoning, unrest, and lockdowns presented an unexpected societal pause to contemplate who we are and where we’re going. Consequently, the national discourse slipped into a backward-oriented conception of our nation’s position in the scheme of human history. As Americans reexamined their past, they scrutinized the rosy elementary school lessons…


Cancel Culture: A Remanifestation of Fascism

Commentary If history teaches us anything, it is that the past is perhaps the single darkest shadow haunting humanity. Since the dawn of human civilization, our modern world has made countless attempts to rewrite, escape, and even purge its most dreadful memories, while clinging dear to that which is better remembered. Let’s face it: the…


[Premiering at 8PM ET] Joseph Fletcher, The Church & Situational Ethics-The False Doctrine of Love

How could one communist wreck the morality of an entire nation? Trevor Loudon explains how one American with his twisted philosophy subverted 2000 years of Western morality. Counterpunch is an Epoch Times show available on Facebook, Parler, Gab, and YouTube. Support Counterpunch: donorbox.org/counterpunch​


Joseph Fletcher, The Church & Situational Ethics-The False Doctrine of Love

How could one communist wreck the morality of an entire nation? Trevor Loudon explains how one American with his twisted philosophy subverted 2000 years of Western morality. Counterpunch is an Epoch Times show available on Facebook, Parler, Gab, and YouTube. Support Counterpunch: donorbox.org/counterpunch​


[Premiering at 7PM ET] Joseph Fletcher, The Church & Situational Ethics-The False Doctrine of Love | CounterPunch

How could one communist wreck the morality of an entire nation? Trevor Loudon explains how one American with his twisted philosophy subverted 2000 years of Western morality