Melanie Kirkpatrick
Writer at Freelance
Senior Fellow at Hudson Institute
Ex-#WSJ opinion editor, writer, senior fellow at #HudsonInstitute, and author of LADY EDITOR: Sarah Josepha Hale and the Making of the Modern American Woman.
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3 days ago |
wsj.com | Melanie Kirkpatrick
Elizabeth Van Lew was rich, beautiful, charming and plugged into 19th-century Virginia high society, whose aristocracy included President Jefferson Davis. Motivated by her abhorrence of slavery and opposition to the dissolution of the Union, Van Lew (1818-1900) used her elite social position to set up a spy ring that helped the North win the Civil War.
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2 months ago |
wsj.com | Melanie Kirkpatrick
She was the daughter of a French-Canadian trader and an Oglala Lakota woman. Her story shines a light on the West’s transformation. When considering the sad history of Native Americans’ interactions with white newcomers to North America, “peace” isn’t a word that springs to mind. The record is fraught with violence, from the 17th-century King Philip’s War, which nearly wiped out the Native Americans of New England, to the Trail of Tears, Little Big Horn and other tragedies in subsequent years.
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Mar 2, 2025 |
wsj.com | Melanie Kirkpatrick
When my mother was asked why she joined the Navy during World War II, she would reply: “We were at war. I had to do something.” Mother was one of 100,000 women who enlisted in the Waves—Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service—established for the purpose of replacing male workers, who were thereby freed to fight. Decades later, women who served their country in manifold ways during World War II would become the subjects of numerous novels and histories.
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Feb 25, 2025 |
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Quotes of the Day:"Revolution is not a mwere struggle for power, it is a struggle for justice and freedom for all."– Emma Goldman"The greatest evils in the world will not be carried out by men with guns, but by men in suits sitting behind desks."– C.S. Lewis“Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave.” – Frederick Douglas1. What Do We Stand For? by Hy Rothstein2. Failure Mechanisms in Democratic Regimes – an Army’s Role (The Angry Staff Officer)3.
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Jan 21, 2025 |
wsj.com | Melanie Kirkpatrick
Washington has known its share of prominent hostesses. As the sociable wife of the nation’s fourth president, Dolley Madison brought together the warring members of Congress at her fabled Wednesday evening “drawing rooms.” Then there was Alice Roosevelt Longworth—the strong-willed, sharp-tongued daughter of President Theodore Roosevelt and the wife of Nicholas Longworth, speaker of the House.
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