What So Proudly We Hail

09/16/2022

LIVE Q & A with WSPWH coeditor Diana Schaub TODAY at 1:30 PM MST / 4:30 PM ET. Hosted by Rob Jackson Great Hearts Institute. Listen here

The Great Hearts Institute is pleased to announce a partnership with What So Proudly We Hail (www.whatsoproudlywehail.org), an e-curriculum developed by dist...

09/16/2022

We are excited to announce that What So Proudly We Hail has returned and is now hosted by Great Hearts Institute! Learn more about our partnership at https://greathearts.institute/what-so-proudly-release-91622/ and visit us at whatsoproudlywehail.org.

07/06/2019

Peggy Noonan praises WSPWH in The Wall Street Journal: “My friend Joel, an America-loving New York intellectual, gave me the book as a gift. He opens it every night at random and always finds something valuable. Now so do I.”

Readings to appreciate the making of our nation and its continuing miracle.

10/08/2018

Columbus Day is a most unusual American holiday, as it commemorates an event that occurred well before the United States was a nation. And yet, in the 500 years since Columbus’s sighting, the day has become distinctly American.

Learn more about the origins and traditions of Columbus Day with our free ebook.

Introduction Columbus Day is a most unusual American holiday, as it commemorates an event that occurred well before the United States was even a nation. And yet, in the five hundred years since Columbus’s sighting, the day has become distinctly American. In the late eighteenth century, Americans b...

02/12/2018

Examine the words and deeds of our greatest presidents: George Washington, the “Father of Our Country” and Abraham Lincoln, the Great Emancipator. Reading selections by Amy and Leon Kass.

Introduction On the third Monday in February, Americans set aside a day to honor and celebrate the birthday of America’s first president. Or that’s the idea. Over time, the significance of the day has waned, as we now celebrate Presidents’ Day sales more than we do the presidents. And although...

01/22/2018

WSPWH editor Diana Schaub on the diaries of John Quincy Adams.

John Quincy Adams saw “the hideous reality of the slave ascendency in the Government of this Union" and set about resisting it.

01/15/2018

Are we at last one nation, with liberty and justice for all? In this ebook, Amy and Leon Kass reflect on the life and legacy of Martin Luther King Jr. and the Civil Rights Movement, and assess their efforts to overcome racial discrimination and to promote racial equality and integration.

https://www.whatsoproudlywehail.org/curriculum/the-american-calendar/the-meaning-of-martin-luther-king-jr-day

12/13/2017

Looking for books for Christmas? George Weigel recommends a new collection of essays by WSPWH editor Leon Kass.

"Generations of students at the University of Chicago found in Leon Kass and his late wife Amy the kind of teachers for which every student and every student’s parents should long. In this collection of essays, some jointly written by one of the all-time great husband-and-wife teams, readers meet wisdom and decency honed by a deep reading of everyone from Homer, Aristotle, and Moses to Shakespeare, Jane Austen, and C. S. Lewis—and by a lifelong love for the Chicago Cubs "

George Weigel offers book suggestions for all the readers on your Christmas gift list.

12/10/2017

How should Christmas be celebrated in a proudly pluralist society, one that prizes freedom of worship, preventing any establishment of a civil religion? Read this free ebook in honor of Amy and Leon Kass, and reflect on the place of Christmas in the American calendar. https://www.whatsoproudlywehail.org/curriculum/the-american-calendar/the-meaning-of-christmas-day

11/10/2017

"Blow, you bugles, play, you fife, / Rattle, drums, for dearest life. / Let the flags wave freely so, / As the marching legions go,/ Shout, hurrah and laugh and jest, / This is memory at its best." Happy !

https://www.whatsoproudlywehail.org/curriculum/the-american-calendar/the-veteran-1905

09/01/2017

Why a holiday to celebrate work and the American worker? Learn more about the origins and traditions of Labor Day.

https://www.whatsoproudlywehail.org/curriculum/the-american-calendar/the-meaning-of-labor-day

07/05/2017

"A patriotism of common national memory could be the answer to the riddle of a politics divided over how to be unified. It is not a way to make our differences go away, but rather to allow us better to live with them and so with each other. . . . Our tradition is more capacious than we tend to imagine and gives us more room for genuine politics than we too often assume."

Americans use patriotism as a political cudgel. Lincoln had an answer to that problem.