The New York Times wrote that “the destruction of so many of its fine collections will be viewed as a national calamity.” Dazed soldiers and worried citizens could only watch as the flames engulfed the museum’s… The Many Ways To Die While Building an Aircraft Carrier On an afternoon in January 1865, a roaring fire swept through the Smithsonian Institution. Museums, and Presenting the Civil War, Spanish Flu, and the Culture Wars While written records of such voyages are often poorly sourced, archeology keeps rewriting… How America Chooses to Remember Itself: 200 Years of U.S. Some think that the Atlantic was crossed as far back as the Bronze Age. Many brave sailors arrived in North and South America long before Columbus, suggesting that trans-oceanic voyages could be accomplished centuries before his voyage. Did Celtic Monks, the Chinese, and Phoenicians Do So Also? Vikings Definitely Came to the New World Before Columbus.

This is a sample of a recent episode of Steve Guerra's History of the Papacy Podcast () about Freemasonry, the Catholic Church, and the modern world. He offers a new vision for America with practical action steps for repairing our rift and healing our wounds.Steve Guerra on Freemasonry, The Catholic Church, and the Modern World

In American Schism, Radwell looks at our country’s history and ongoing political tensions through the lens of the Radical Enlightenment versus the Moderate Enlightenment, and their dynamic interplay with Counter-Enlightenment movements over the last few centuries. Through a deep dive into foundational documents and the influence of the European Enlightenment, he discovered today’s raging conflicts have their roots in the fundamentally different visions of America that emerged at our nation’s founding. Increasingly disturbed by the contentious state of politics, social unrest, and the apparent disappearance of “truth,” Radwell set out to examine his own long-held assumptions about American democracy and ideals. Different intellectuals had different solutions, so you have the American Revolution on one hand, and the French Revolution on the other.īut today’s guest, Seth David Radwell a researcher of the Enlightenment and A business leader with a master’s degree in Public Policy from Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, argues that our political divisions are not “unprecedented.” In his book, American Schism: How the Two Enlightenments Hold the Secret to Healing Our Nation, Radwell, proposes a new dialogue between thoughtful and concerned Americans from both red and blue states who make up the exhausted majority-a dialogue informed by our country’s history. And the fault lines in our society may be centuries old and stem back to the beginning of the Enlightenment, when scholars asked fundamental questions of how we know what is and isn’t true, and how do we order our society along those principles. This can be characterized by an eroding of civil institutions or politicians completely ignoring democratic norms by doing whatever is necessary to seek power and asking “where are the nuclear launch codes?” However, these challenges may not be so new. Pundits on both the left and right proclaim our democracy is in crisis.

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