Author: Bronte Wigen

At the center of the Gettysburg National Cemetery stands a tall white monument with four stone figures seated at its base. The figures represent History, War, Peace, and Plenty. Atop the monument proudly stands the figure of Liberty with a sword in one hand and a wreath in the other. It is called the Soldiers’...

On the cold clear evening of December 16, 1773, few, if any, of the participants of the Boston Tea Party realized that dumping 92,000 pounds of Indian tea into the harbor would mark the starting point of the American Revolution. Yet so begins historian Richard R. Beeman’s newest book “Our Lives, Our Fortunes, and Our...

Hillsdale College is unique for its refusal to accept federal funding, and also for its statues. The only statue of Margaret Thatcher in North America, for example, is on Hillsdale’s campus. The college honors leaders such as Thatcher, Reagan, and Washington with statues on the school’s Liberty Walk. Positioned on the Quad, in the Union,...

Eric Blair — not a bad name. It has a certain ring to it, yet it’s not a name we recognize. We are, however, familiar with Blair’s writing and the words and phrases he made famous such as “cold war” and “Big Brother.” We simply know him by another name: George Orwell. Even though over...