History is being removed from view, little by little. It’s death by a million paper cuts.
FOX News reports:
Historic Catholic marker deemed ‘racist symbol’ removed by University of California Santa Cruz
A university in California removed a historical symbol from its campus Friday in an effort to be “more inclusive” after a years-long...
Do you get the sense that some people are actively trying to remove American history from view?
The College Fix reports:
Mural of George Washington that ‘traumatizes students’ to be covered up
There’s plans in the works to cover a mural of George Washington from the halls of George Washington High School in San...
I first blogged about Juneteenth in 2015. As I noted then, the day’s significance is almost criminally under appreciated.
Over the last few years, the 19th of June and its significance, are slowly gaining national popularity, reverence, and acknowledgment.
Remember when the left insisted this sort of thing was only about Confederate statues? They lied.
The College Fix reports:
Pioneer statue called ‘monument to violent white supremacy,’ students, faculty demand its removal
In celebration of Oregon’s roots in pioneering, a statue of a pioneer, known simply as “The Pioneer,” was erected a century...
President Donald Trump’s administration has a short-term plan to
house illegal immigrant children traveling with an adult family
member or guardian. While historically this news has barely blipped
on the MSM’s radar during Democratic administrations, the
Resistance
mainstream media wants...
As we pointed out recently, Linda Fairstein, the New York City sex crimes prosecutor who handled the famous ‘Central Park Five’ case, has been subjected to a purge after the premiere of a new Netflix program on the subject.
She claims the program has distorted the truth and maligned her unfairly. Now...
Officials in Cambridge, MA, which is known for its progressive politics, have removed the Massachusetts state flag from city hall. The flag features an image of the Native American leader Massasoit (aka Ousamequin) with the arm of Myles Standish holding a sword at the top.
For the last few years campus progressives, most notably at Hofstra University, have been trying to erase Thomas Jefferson from the public square. Now 2020 Democratic hopeful Pete Buttigieg has joined the effort.
Pepperdine had to get rid of the statue because Columbus had become a problematic figure for the student body.
The College Fix reports:
UPDATE: Pepperdine gives embattled Christopher Columbus statue to neighboring Catholic college
A little over two years ago, Pepperdine University made the decision to take down a statue of Christopher Columbus after...
This happened at an event at Amherst College and the professor is from Middlebury College. What a shocker.
Campus Reform reports:
Prof asks whether students should learn ‘dead white man’ Thoreau at ‘Whiteness of Walden’ event
Students at Amherst College in Massachusetts convened in April to ruminate on whether or not the teachings of...
As a practicing Catholic who visited the famous Notre Dame Cathedral in 2015, watching the news reports covering the conflagration, the destruction of its roof, and the collapse of its iconic spire was gut-wrenching.
Legal Insurrection readers are acutely aware of the deplatforming and silencing of conservative voices across social media and via outlets like Amazon.
The latest victim to get slammed by the iron-hand of Big Tech is President Trump’s chief social media guru, Dan Scavino. Facebook blocked his account for simply responding to a...
Here we go again. The school refused to do this last year, but the students aren’t taking no for an answer.
Campus Reform reports:
Founding Fathers under attack: Students demand Thomas Jefferson statue removal
Students at Hofstra University protested a statue of Thomas Jefferson on Friday at the second annual event, titled “Jefferson Has...
Try this with any other group in society and watch what happens.
The College Fix reports:
‘American Political Thought’ course at CU Denver removes all white men from curriculum
I can clearly recall the first day of class a few semesters ago when I eagerly began a course called “American Political Thought” at the...
I wouldn’t call our Founding Fathers perfect, but man did they leave us one of the greatest documents penned in the English language. Their brilliance provided America not only with the Bill of Rights, but with the Electoral College.
Grumbles about the Electoral College have existed for a long time, but after...
George Mendonsa, the sailor kissing a nurse in Times Square after WWII, has passed away at age 95.
Mendonsa claimed he was the sailor in the iconic photo, but could never convince Life magazine.
Since the collapse of the Soviet Union and the subsequent independence of the Balkans, one of the most hotly contested issues has been between Greece and the neighboring entity that had been calling itself the “Republic of Macedonia”.
The origin of this struggle has been the legacy of Alexander the Great, the...
