Category Archives: Historical Essays
The roots of the riots: What’s happening in England?
At 11:45 AM on the 29th of July, 17-year-old Axel Rudakubana got out of a [...]
Russia’s Repentance for the Romanov Regicide
On a private tour of the Solzhenitsyn House in Moscow in 2018, I viewed an extraordinary exhibition [...]
Facing Death with Heroism: Trump Joins Jackson, Roosevelt, and Reagan
At 6:11 p.m. on July 13th, just as former President Donald J. Trump turned from [...]
A visit to the Brontë Parsonage
Each year, 80,000 literary pilgrims make the trek into Brontë country in West Yorkshire. If [...]
“Rave in the Nave”: On the Desecration of English Churches
“The great cathedrals, so full of beauty and interest, are now like whales washed up [...]
When Middle Earth Came to Vienna: How a Polish king’s Winged Hussars Saved Christendom
This essay was first published at The European Conservative in December 2022. The release of [...]
The Last of the Greatest Generation: Clarence E. “Bud” Anderson (1922-2024)
Clarence E. “Bud” Anderson, the last World War II triple ace flyer, died peacefully in [...]
WATCH: 80 Years Later: The Prayers of D-Day
Eighty years ago today, soldiers surged up the Normandy beaches to defend a Christian civilization. [...]
What I saw at Corrie ten Boom’s Hiding Place
Eighty years ago, on February 28, 1944, the Nazis arrested a Dutch family in Haarlem [...]
The Miracle of Forgiveness: The Rwandan Genocide, Thirty Years Later
Thirty years ago, on 7 April 1994, the Rwandan genocide began. Over the course of [...]