Don’t miss the multiple-part FOUNDATION OF AMERICAN LIBERTY series of hour-long documentaries by Dr. Jerry Newcombe on our nation’s Judeo-Christian Roots. 6 0f the 7 part series are available on DVD, many of them through streaming, or portions thereof. In 2024, look for THE BEGINNING OF WISDOM (on the Bible and American education) These are […]

[Photo of Tim Ballard and Jerry Newcombe] Some people discount America as founded because of slavery. However, the founders created the framework by which it could be uprooted one day; and it was, at a cost of about 700,000 men who died in the Civil War. Meanwhile, slavery was not unique to America, as the […]

Sir William Gladstone, a British Prime Minister during the time of Queen Victoria, once observed, “The American Constitution is, so far as I can see, the most wonderful work ever struck off at a given time by the brain and purpose of man.” The Constitution needs no defense. Its durability is a testimony to its […]

The Declaration of Independence says we’re endowed by our Creator with certain unalienable rights and among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. When Vice President Kamala Harris gave a speech promoting abortion over the weekend, she cited our nation’s founding document, and the right to liberty and the pursuit of happiness. But […]

In eight years, America will celebrate a major milestone—the 400th anniversary of Boston. I passed through Boston’s airport in 2021 and noticed that they seem to be gearing up for this milestone with lots of signs and images celebrating major events in Boston’s history. Alas, they grossly underplayed the role of the Puritans in this […]

In 1629, the first American balloting for an election occurred in Salem, Massachusetts. The issue? Choosing a minister and choosing a Christian teacher for the colony. “Such is the origin of the use of the ballot on this continent; [Samuel] Skelton was chosen pastor and [Francis] Higginson teacher.”  So writes George Bancroft, an early American […]

November 2021 marked the 400th anniversary of the first Thanksgiving New Video Documentary Tells the Pilgrim Story ***Get your own copy through streaming at salemnow.com*** Thanksgiving 2021 was a milestone—Thanksgiving was first celebrated 400 years ago in 1621. There is a new Providence Forum documentary telling the true story of the Pilgrims. In their own […]

While America has unquestionably had deep racial problems and an agonizing history of oppressing Black people through slavery, Jim Crow, and other outrages, it seems that there are some among us who do not ever want to see the problems solved—or to admit progress in any form. There are those who make enormous profits, both […]