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Museums, Swamps and Native American History Await in Lee County, Florida Apr. 16, 2023
By Victor Block When my wife, Fyllis, and I arrived in Lee County, Florida, weeks after it was devas... Read More
Lee County, Florida: Unanticipated Bonus Compliments of Hurricane Ian Apr. 15, 2023
By Fyllis Hockman Walking along the Fort Myers Yacht Basin in the center of the city, you would neve... Read More
Rethinking Columbus and 1492 in and Out of the Classroom, Part I Oct. 02, 2021
Today is the first day of October, a month that is many things. It's National Apple Month (that make... Read More
Small Museums in Rangeley, Maine, Whet the Appetite for More Aug. 07, 2021
By Victor Block New York has its Metropolitan Museum of Art and Washington, D.C., the Smithsonian In... Read More
Rich Whites Trying to Suppress Native Americans. Again Apr. 28, 2021
It's tough being rich. For one thing, you have to be on constant alert to keep commoners from encroa... Read More
U.S. Archaeological Sites Tell Stories, Leave Mysteries Oct. 04, 2020
By Victor Block People who ascend a high mountain ridge in Wyoming are greeted by a collection of ro... Read More
Why Reparations Talk Is Harmful Sep. 20, 2019
Three Democratic candidates for president, Julian Castro, Cory Booker and Marianne Williamson, have ... Read More
Reparations: How Not to Foster Racial Harmony Jun. 27, 2019
About reparations, a skeptical President Barack Obama in 2016 told reparations proponent Ta-Nehisi C... Read More
What Reparations Opponents Get Wrong Jun. 27, 2019
Among many Americans, the founding of the republic and the drafting of the Constitution are as vivid... Read More
Left's Latest Demand: Race-Based Reparations Feb. 26, 2019
Having embraced "Medicare-for-all," free college tuition and a Green New Deal that would mandate an ... Read More
Donald Trump's Ghost Dance Feb. 13, 2017
In 1890, in the American West, out there where the streams are fast and clear and the rivers are slo... Read More
Thanksgiving Tragedy Nov. 23, 2016
Tomorrow, as you celebrate the meal the Pilgrims ate with Indians, pause a moment to thank private p... Read More
The Search for Wiggle Room May. 06, 2016
Only yesterday Hillary Clinton was the beloved feminist destined to break through the glass ceiling ... Read More
Campus Lunacy, Part II Apr. 06, 2016
Professor Victor Davis Hanson is a classicist and historian with the Hoover Institution at Stanford ... Read More
The World's Biggest Statue of a Nameless Horseback Rider Sep. 23, 2014
It is, by all accounts, "the world's biggest equestrian statue" — so big that it's meant to be... Read More
Time Portals on the Road Sep. 09, 2014
As you drive west on I-10 across Texas, you can see Mexico from your left windows. Sometimes the hig... Read More
There Was Compassion on the Spanish Mission Trail Aug. 26, 2014
When we think of the Spanish conquistadors, most of us see images of the ruthless explorers who comm... Read More
This Week, the Answer Man Looks at Native Americans Jul. 12, 2014
1. The name of this state comes from Choctaw words, which translate to "red people." Name the state.... Read More
Thank You, Washington Redskins Jun. 25, 2014
Increasingly in my travels, a person will discover I'm from Cleveland and want to talk about Chief W... Read More
The Redskins Brouhaha Has Nothing to Do With Native Americans Jun. 20, 2014
Do you think leftists are the slightest bit troubled by the public's overwhelming opposition to thei... Read More
