One of the coolest names I’ve ever heard would be high on my list of candidates if I ever had to find a new one.

Roger Sherman was the only person to sign all of the Four Great State Papers of the United States.

Can you imagine Washington, Jefferson, Franklin, or any of America’s Founders ordering the murder of 200,000 people? That’s what the French Revolutionaries did to the region known as the Vendee.

What if Rhode Island had never ratified the Constitution, thereby never joining the Union and evolving as a tiny nation of its own?

What is the main source of our big government problem today—a flawed document or flawed individuals who have allowed its protections to wither?

Wilkes, Pitt, Barré, Burke, and Fox: These are the names of great British parliamentarians who defended America when few of their colleagues could muster the courage to do so. They should forever be an important part of the story of America’s creation.

I doubt there’s a soul on the planet who never had an ancestor who was victimized by somebody, but that’s no reason to find the victim’s innocent living descendants and make them pay for it.

A country that uses its tax dollars to distort and vilify its own history is likely to embrace stupid ideas and elect a lot of bad people. The Smithsonian, unfortunately, is just the tip of the iceberg.

Just days after she was laid to rest, we learned that somebody didn’t like Dolly.

The state legislatures during the War for Independence and from its conclusion in 1783 until 1787 were not models of limited and responsible, republican government.

Lots of good history here!

Doug Stuart of the Libertarian Christian Institute interviews me on the key ideas, events, and people of the American Revolution.

An interview (recorded August 21, 2026) on the Jenny Beth Show about Born of Ideas: How Principles, Faith, and Courage Forged America.

Maresca writes, “Reed’s prose is direct and unpretentious writing with the clarity of someone who has spent decades lecturing about economics and history. His tone is heartfelt, patriotic and unapologetically celebratory of America’s founding ideals…In a time when historical memory is often lacking and politicized, Reed offers a refreshing reminder on how America was built on ideas worth knowing, debating and defending.” The book is available now on Amazon.

When the country needed someone like her to rebut communist propaganda, she stepped forward and did the job with great eloquence and effect.

Life without liberty is unthinkable. My main stage speech at the Young Americans for Liberty National Convention in Cincinnati on July 29, 2026.

Daniel Newnan, warts and all, was a military and political leader who answered the call to duty in Georgia’s early days.

Socialism is rooted in the absurd notion that people will work harder and smarter for the government than they will work for themselves and their families — from my op-ed in the 8/15/26 Dallas Morning News.

Hundreds of colonial pastors and priests supported the Revolution from their pulpits, spurred their congregations to take up arms against the British, and served as chaplains in George Washington’s Continental Army. Were they wrong? (Pictured: Rev. Jonathan Mayhew, 1720-1796).

Can the Constitution in any sense be seen as a statist coup d’état?