The Continental Congress appointed George Washington Commander-in-Chief of the Continental Army on June 19, 1775. Washington did not think he was qualified for the job. It’s not like any other part of the Patriot resistance was ready for war. Washington was off to lead a bunch of Massachusetts farmers who trained part-time. There were a […]
Read More
Editor’s Note: The following is an article originally published on RealClear Education on June 5, 2025. With edits to match Minding the Campus’s style guidelines, it is crossposted here with permission. For generations, my Russian family’s Jewish identity was systematically silenced. When we immigrated to Boca Raton, Florida, it felt like beginning a new chapter—one […]
Read More
Congress is weighing the possibility of creating “Workforce Pell.” Those would be Pell Grants, not for college students, but for individuals who want to enroll in short-term programs aimed at credentialing them for immediate employment. The idea is attractive to those of us who believe that far too many young people are lured into college […]
Read More
Two of my great-great-grandfathers left Maine in the “fight to make men free”—one came back without his foot, and the other died in “Hospital, Washington;” we don’t even know where he was buried. Ending the horrible evil of slavery should be celebrated, but June 19, 1865, is neither the day it ended nor one significant […]
Read More