College is an awkward transition between leaving home and entering the “real world” of careers, grocery bills, and mortgage payments. And you might not want to hear it, but we have it easy in college. It’s easy to find free food and life is safe here in Hillsdale. It is not uncommon to find yourself...
All you freshman have undoubtedly received so much advice by this time that you are sick of it. Your family surely told you what to do freshman year to get by, your church back home offered advice, your friends have put in their two cents. You got even more useful advice if you went to...
Outside of Española, New Mexico, stands a statue of Don Juan de Oñate. For his direct descendants, and many Spanish-American New Mexicans who trace their ancestry back to colonization, he is symbolic of the spirit of exploration and of Spanish culture in New Mexico. For the Pueblo peoples of New Mexico, however, Don Oñate has...
While many defend Confederate statues as part of our history, monuments are fundamentally a matter of both a community’s history and identity. We as Americans must determine what parts of our history we claim, identify with, and idealize. A monument is a symbol of our aspirations as a society. The Confederacy is undoubtably a part...
A statue in a public place can serve many purposes, but outside of the proper context of a battlefield or other specific location, its main role is to honor someone. That is what Confederate statues do: honor generals, soldiers, and politicians that represented the Confederacy. The Civil War was about slavery, and these statues were...