David Randall

6 days ago | mindingthecampus.org | David Randall

The Second Continental Congress opened on May 10, 1775. The British had already fired upon Massachusetts militia men at Lexington and Concord. Soon, Congress would make itself into a genuine, revolutionary government by taking on the traditional tasks of borrowing money, printing paper currency, and raising an army, which is what they needed the money for. That wouldn’t be until June. First, the Congress had to read into its Journal the authorizing credentials.

1 week ago | mindingthecampus.org | David Randall

I’ve recently had the honor and the pleasure to serve on the Workgroup assembled by the Florida Department of Education (FLDOE) to help draft Florida’s new K-12 History of Communism standards. I shouldn’t say anything about the draft standards in detail, since they haven’t yet been published, but my fellow workgroup members and the members of the FLDOE did an excellent job. Florida citizens should be happy when they see the final result.

2 weeks ago | mindingthecampus.org | David Randall

An extraordinary number of public state universities now admit a majority of their students from out of state. At the University of Vermont, the number is 75 percent. At the University of Delaware, the number is 66 percent.

3 weeks ago | mindingthecampus.org | David Randall

The University of Oklahoma offers a Social Justice Minor, which “introduce[s] students to the complexities of structural inequalities and injustices while teaching students critical thought processes.” Arizona State University offers an MA in Social Justice and Human Rights that prepares students to understand “how social justice and human rights issues are defined by multiple and intersecting forms of inequality and social identity, including gender, race, ethnicity, class, sexuality and...

4 weeks ago | mindingthecampus.org | David Randall

Of course, Paul Revere was a hero as he rowed and rode to alarm the countryside around Boston: “The British are coming! The British are coming!” (“The Regulars are coming out,” the staid historians tell us were his actual words.) So too were the much neglected William Dawes and Samuel Prescott. We owe our independence and our liberty to their pluck and bravery.