| Leading off this week’s curation is the latest 1776 Series essay, “The Founders’ Understanding of Equality.” The independent scholar Robert Curry argues that the American Founders’ conception of “all men are created equal” meant that “we are all equal in that we all possess unalienable rights equally.” This idea of equality did not overlook the many ways in which human beings are unequal, and it did not neglect the crucial moral duties and civic obligations that all citizens should carry out. Mike Sabo, the editor of RealClear’s American Civics portal, reviews the new documentary “Right Makes Might: The Lincoln-Douglas Debates,” which is streaming now at Fox Nation. “Right Makes Might” explores the first – and greatest – national political debates in American history between Abraham Lincoln and Illinois Sen. Stephen A. Douglas in 1858. At the White House Conference on American History on Constitution Day, a panel of noted scholars examined civic education in America. Opened by Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson and led by Hillsdale College President Larry Arnn, scholars such as Wilfred McClay, Allen Guelzo, Peter Wood, and Mary Grabar spoke on the promises of and threats to civic education. Phillip Magness writes that the New York Times’s 1619 Project and its creator, Nikole Hannah-Jones, have silently altered a major claim: that America was founded in 1619 instead of 1776. As Magness contends, all evidence of what had formerly been a central argument of The 1619 Project has been scrubbed from its website and Hannah-Jones’s social media; she has even claimed that this argument was never made in the first place. Original Posts Mike Sabo, RealClearPolitics Robert Curry, RealClearPublicAffairs We have reached a time when each of us must make an effort to rediscover what Adams and Jefferson and the other Founders... Essential Reading Allen C. Guelzo & James Hankins, New Criterion Abraham Lincoln had scarcely been elected as the sixteenth president when the death threats began to arrive. They continued... Leon Kass, What So Proudly We Hail From the time I was old enough to have a hero, Abraham Lincoln has been mine. At first, it was largely an accident of birth. Born in... In the News Steven F. Hayward, City Journal Hunter Baker, Jackson Sun Doug Ducey, National Review Titus Techera, Law & Liberty Annette Gordon-Reed, Museum of the American Revolution Scott Yenor, RealClearPolitics Talia Kaplan, Fox News Adam J. White, Wall Street Journal Jonathan Butcher, Daily Signal Daniel J. Mahoney, Public Discourse F.H. Buckley, Law & Liberty Katherine Miller, Buzzfeed Richard Samuelson, RealClearPolitics David Davenport, Washington Examiner Fred Lucas, Daily Signal Fox Nation Watch the brilliant new documentary on the Lincoln-Douglas debates, featuring noted scholars Lucas Morel, Charles Kesler, and Michael Burlingame... Michael Warren, Patriot Lessons The Founders believed that Prudence would prevent revolutions so long as evils were sufferable - until the government... Larry Arnn, Ben Carson, Mary Grabar et al., Hillsdale College On Constitution Day, Sept. 17, a panel of distinguished historians and scholars led by Dr. Larry Arnn spoke at the National Archives on civic education... Thomas G. West, John Eastman, et al., Claremont Institute What should we think about the broad delegations of power from legislatures to executives to implement new and draconian... Carl Cannon's Great American Stories Major League Baseball's strange, shortened, and fan-less 2020 regular season has come to an end. Every team with a winning ... Good morning, it's Friday, Sept. 25, 2020, the day the week when I reprise an instructive or inspirational quotation. Choosing ... On this date in 1896, in the upper Mississippi River state capital of St. Paul, an upper-middle-class couple with Irish ... | 
