Ol’ Silent Cal came to the Black Hills of South Dakota to vacation in the summer of 1927 and the magnanimous native people who considered...

The author and historian Shelby Foote, his narrative history of the Civil War  – all 1.5 million words of it – remains one of the...

Of course the great and terrible American Civil War – across the country we are commemorating its 150th anniversary – eventually became a...

Looking for something to be thankful for this holiday season? Lift a glass to the memory of the 26th President of the United States. He...

Tim Egan, who writes an on line column for the New York Times website, had a marvelous piece earlier this month. He called it “My Summer...

I’m happy, through the Andrus Center for Public Policy, to be involved in hosting a lunch and speech from the chairman on June 11th. A...

Jim Leach is on a mission. The former Republican Congressman from Iowa, now chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH),...

You’ll get lots of hits: Alaska v. Babbitt or Defenders of Wildlife v. Kempthorne or Andrus v. Shell Oil Company. Much of the litigation...

When Bob Abbey, the director of the Bureau of Land Management, testified before Congress last year during his confirmation hearing he...

In the old TV series, Perry Mason always wrapped up the case in the last few minutes of the show, tied a ribbon on the verdict and went...