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You but good evening everyone. [laughter] welcome to tonights lecture on one of this countrys most noted perhaps, though many will say noted for the wrong reasons. For generations the name Benedict Arnold has elicited a oneword description for most americans. Traitor. Perhaps we are wrong. Or perhaps partly wrong. Tonight, we will hear the rest of the story. It is a special pleasure to recognize the sponsor of tonights program, she and her husband have been the foremost supporters since the very...

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A Message from the American Enlightenment Project: 
Congressional Action Is Helpful but Not Enough, After Heller Put America in Peril

By Jennifer Tucker, Wesleyan University


	In the opening scene of “The Last Duel," the new film set in 14th-century France, a herald announces the rules for conduct at a tournament to the death. He declares that no members of the public – whatever their social background – are allowed to bring we...

Many gun rights advocates claim that the right to carry guns is a universal right that has spanned centuries and nations. History tells a different story.

The White House Daryl W. Baldwin, of Ohio, to be a Member of the National Council on the Humanities for a term expiring January 26, 2024, vice Camila Ann Alire, term expired. Genine Macks Fidler, of Florida, to be a Member of the National Council on the Humanities for a term expiring January 26, 2022, vice John Unsworth, term expired. Beverly Gage, of Connecticut, to be a Member of the National Council on the Humanities for a term expiring January 26, 2024, vice Daniel Iwao Okimoto, term ...

pñ3ñlñkñsñdñ a few exceptions, you know, by and large, dr. howards efforts in mississippi are simply not part of the commonly understood narrative of civil rights. and yet he was very much at the center of a movement before the movement that we remember. how would you explain howards invisibility given his importance? >> i can try to take a crack at that. he was a renaissance man. so howard -- howard had excelled as a civil rights leader but then he moved on to other things. he w...

languid. she called them the bulwarks of slavery. because the churches -- the institutional churches were proslavery. nonetheless, she was extremely religious and she knew the bible inside and out. and that was really her guide. that was how she determined her discipleship. and as i say in my book, she basically espoused a kind of christian communism which she got from the new testament. the idea that worldly goods are not important. the significance of communal living, the importance ...