Cancel Culture Comes to the Supreme Court ~ The Imaginative Conservative

The reality is that no person and no private institution can escape the ceaseless initiatives by legal activists, judicial activists, cities, states, and, depending upon the Administration, the federal government to re-standardize American public as well as private life, and search out and cancel dissenters… (essay by Thomas Ascik)
— Read on theimaginativeconservative.org/2020/10/cancel-culture-supreme-court-thomas-ascik.html

What Is Patriotic Education? ~ The Imaginative Conservative

Patriotic education is less about the specific curricular concepts that are featured in American history classes, and more about a philosophical stance that informs our approach, one full of explicit values and assumptions. It involves an audacious faith in America and tells the whole story of our past, which includes the bad with the good… (essay by Gary Houchens)
— Read on theimaginativeconservative.org/2020/10/what-patriotic-education-gary-houchens.html

British Surrender at Saratoga: Turning Point of the American Revolutionary War ~ The Imaginative Conservative

On October 17, 1777, with his troops surrounded and vastly outmanned, British General John Burgoyne surrendered. The final battle of Saratoga was a major defeat for the British and word of British surrender further rallied troops in the Continental Army and the Militias. Although the end of the war and full British surrender was years off, the Battle of Saratoga was a major turning point in the Revolutionary War… (essay by David Robbins)
— Read on theimaginativeconservative.org/2020/10/british-surrender-saratoga-turning-point-american-revolutionary-war-david-robbins.html

“The World Turned Upside Down” ~ The Imaginative Conservative

According to American legend, the British army band under Lord Cornwallis played “The World Turned Upside Down”—a protest song against Parliament’s outlawing of traditional English Christmas celebrations—when they surrendered after the Siege of Yorktown… (listen here)
— Read on theimaginativeconservative.org/2020/10/the-world-turned-upside-down.html