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“Are we doing a good enough job teaching our children what America is and what she represents in the long history of the world?” asked President Ronald Reagan as he left office in 1989. Twenty-seven years earlier, President John F. Kennedy admonished that our history teaches us “responsibili…

In 1992, I started teaching at West Chester University. My students were mostly working-class kids from the collar counties who saw higher education as a way to move up in the world. But they often struggled in subjects like history — my own field — which they saw as irrelevant to their future em…

A $12 million investigation into the University of Michigan’s athletic department produced no actual report amid findings that revealed the institution failed to be transparent and accountable. Michigan did not release any comprehensive investigative report because it said none was conducte…

For America’s semiquincentennial, my son and I drove from New York to Williamsburg, Virginia, to hear the Declaration of Independence read from the old Capitol — the very spot where it was proclaimed to cannon fire 250 years ago. The heat pushed 100 degrees, the fifes and drums came up Duke of Gl…