Many a men have helmed the U.S.S. Constitution since the three-masted wooden Navy frigate was built in 1797. After 225 years, a highly decorated commander with as much salt and combat experience as her male predecessors is making history aboard America’s most historic ship. Cmdr. Billie J. Farrell took command of the U.S.S. Constitution on…
How John Deere’s Innovative Plow Transformed the Agricultural Industry
Droves of Easterners were moving westward in 1836, searching for a fresh start and submitting to their faith in the future. Among them was a determined but heavily indebted 32-year-old Vermont blacksmith who had temporarily left behind his pregnant wife and four young children to try his luck on the distant frontier. His name was…
What Were They Fighting For? The Stories Behind Early Americans’ Motivation to Join the Revolutionary War
June 1, 2022
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Modern American society still talks about and references the American Revolution all the time. Its battlefields are well preserved and marked, its literature is still invoked in modern political campaigns and speeches, its symbols and quotes and prominent figures are everywhere in stone and bronze and steel and ink—at least for now. Perhaps the individual…
How This Bloody Civil War Battle Paved the Way for Lincoln’s Historic Emancipation Proclamation
June 1, 2022
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President Abraham Lincoln had a great deal on his mind in the summer of 1862. The Civil War dragged on, and the very fate of the nation hung in the balance. As he considered his responsibilities and authority as president, his resolve for a new measure grew. He invited Secretary of the Navy Gideon Welles…
Inspirational Athletes from History: How Ted Corbitt Used His Running Career to Help Those in Need of Physical Therapy
Ted Corbitt estimated that he ran 200,000 miles in his lifetime. That amounts to more than eight full trips around the Earth. Ted Corbitt was a world-class marathon and long distance runner who enjoyed an exceptionally long career. In the Boston Marathon, for example, his first race was in 1951, and his last race was…
One-of-a-Kind Mechanical Trade School Helps Students Grow Through Faith and Humanities
What do an air hammer, a student, and the Greek philosopher Plato have in common? They are all part of an education that, as Plato puts it, teaches “children to desire the right things.” At Harmel Academy of the Trades, on the picturesque campus of Kuyper College in Grand Rapids, Michigan, the all-male student body…
Trade School or College? The Many Benefits of Encouraging Children to Choose Their Own Educational Path
It was the third day of kindergarten. My son jumped into the car and announced, “I’m not going to school anymore. I’m going to be a truck driver!” I looked at my wife and then my son and simply said, “You’ve got a long way to go until you can do that; I think we…
Book Recommender: ’The Double Life of Katharine Clark,” a Real Life Story of Escaping Communism That Reads Like a Heart-Pounding Spy Thriller
Katherine Clark was an investigative reporter active between the 1940s and 1960s. She was the first female Allied war correspondent entering Berlin in 1945. Her 1950s beat was Eastern Europe. There, she spoke truth to power, what investigative reporters are supposed to do. But she spoke the wrong kind of truth about the wrong kind…
Planting Fields Arboretum: A Botanical Paradise in New York Reminiscent of the Old English Countryside
Some 30 miles away from the hectic buzz of New York City, America’s wealthy elite once built luxurious mansions along Long Island’s North Shore, known as the Gold Coast. Many are no longer standing, but the Planting Fields Arboretum, one of a few that have remained, is a restful repose for admiring English-style architecture, open…
Exploring Mount Rainier, a National Park That Exemplifies the Power of Nature’s Dichotomy
“The most luxuriant and the most extravagantly beautiful of all the alpine gardens I ever beheld in all my mountain-top wanderings.” —John Muir Towering over the surrounding landscape like an earthbound deity, Mount Rainier in Washington state simultaneously possesses the power for bountiful creation and extreme destruction. With over two dozen glaciers on its nearly…
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