| Last week’s curation at RealClear’s American Civics portal leads off with an exploration of the history of Juneteenth by the Jack Miller Center’s Elliott Drago. Juneteenth is now a national holiday created to celebrate the ending of slavery in the United States. Drago highlights a handful of interviews, which are taken from a massive audio archive, in which former slaves speak of their surprise and shock when they first heard the news of their emancipation in 1865. Drago relates the story of Alto, Texas resident Preely Coleman, who “remembered his owner telling him and the other enslaved men working in the field that ‘you all are free as I am.’ The men began ‘shouting and singing’ in celebration.” “‘Reverend Bill’ Green of San Antonio, 87, also heard about the proclamation in June 1865,” Drago writes, “but he wasn’t freed, and his owner attempted to keep him as a slave until he was 21. Only the actions of a local judge saved Green from continued bondage.” At RealClearBooks, American Civics portal editor Mike Sabo looks at the children’s book series, “Heroes of Liberty,” which offers compelling biographies, complete with beautiful illustrations, of important yet underappreciated Western statesmen, thinkers, and cultural icons including Ronald Reagan, Thomas Sowell, and John Wayne. In another piece, this time for RealClearEducation, Sabo covers the recent reintroduction of the Civics Secures Democracy Act in the U.S. Senate, which “would provide $1 billion in grants annually over the next five years to support civics and U.S. history education.” And at the American Civics portal, Adam Carrington of Hillsdale College discusses the Supreme Court’s recent decision to “DIG” a case, which means that “the Court, on second thought, decided they never should have taken the case.” The case in question, Arizona v. City and County of San Francisco, pertained to the Trump administration’s 2019 Public Charge Rule that “gave the government the power to deny entry or permanent legal status to those immigrants so designated.” In Carrington’s view, the Court made the right decision, “because the justices had a host of problems complicating their ability to make a clear ruling” given the facts of that case. Original Posts Mike Sabo, RealClearEducation Mike Sabo, RealClearBooks Adam Carrington, RealClearPublicAffairs The Supreme Court ended last week with a “DIG.” Not the insult of common parlance, a DIG means they “dismissed a case as improvidently granted.” This says the Court, on second though... Essential Reading National Association of Scholars' Civics Alliance Bottom Line: “American Birthright: The Civics Alliance’s Model K-12 Social Studies Standards” is a framework featuring clear... Richard Reinsch, Carson Holloway, Samuel Gregg, et al., Law & Liberty Law & Liberty Senior Writer Daniel J. Mahoney’s new book, "The Statesman as Thinker," offers sketches of some of Western... In the News Ariane de Vogue & Tierney Sneed, CNN José M. Romero, Arizona Republic Tom Hand, Constituting America James Rosen, RealClearPolitics John Murawski, RealClearInvestigations Haley Weger, KPLC Clifford McMurray, Planned Man Adam Carrington, American Spectator John O. McGinnis, Law & Liberty Gary Porter, Constituting America Becky Little, History.com Kelsey Kendall, Virginian-Pilot Tony Williams, Constituting America John Sailer, RealClearEducation Nina Totenberg, NPR Tony Williams, Bill of Rights Although Theodore Roosevelt’s energetic personality is remembered today by most Americans as almost larger than life, who... Glenn Loury & John McWhorter, Glenn Show What do we know about the effects of DEI initiatives? In one sense, we know quite a lot. There are entire sub-industries in the... Vincent Phillip Muñoz & R.R. Reno, First Things Editor R. R. Reno is joined by Vincent Phillip Muñoz to talk about his May 27, 2022 web exclusive article, “What Is an Establishment... Civics in Real Time Civics in In this episode of Real Time, a monthly podcast about civic issues, ideas, and events brought to you by the Lou Frey Institute of Politics... Carl Cannon's Great American Stories It's Friday, June 3, 2022, the day of the week when I pass along a quotation intended to be uplifting ... It's Friday, May 20, 2022, the day of the week when I pass along a quotation intended to be uplifting ... Good morning, it's Friday, May 6, 2022, the day of the week when I pass along a quotation intended to ... |
