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Education in Early America · Part II

How Do We Make Patriots?

Knowing how a country is governed is not the same as loving it. In Part II, we explore how early American education formed patriots through inherited duties, remembered heroes, and a sense of belonging.

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Education in Early America · Part I

What Makes Men Who Build Nations?

Washington, Henry, Adams, Hamilton, Jefferson, Madison, Greene, and so many others together present a question which ought to trouble any age that has grown accustomed to expecting little of its sons. How did so many men of such virtue and magnitude arise together, in a few scattered colonies, at the very hour when their nation required them?

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Fellowship

A Time to Build

Robert E. Lee is another great man of history, and one of the finest produced from our native soil. I am writing this in the recent aftermath of the latest Stonewall Jackson statue being removed from its rightful place. It is a precarious situation for those seeking to…

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History

Robert E. Lee—America’s Second Washington?

Robert E Lee, was born into a wealthy and aristocratic family His father, being a Revolutionary war hero Henry “Light-Horse Harry” Lee,exemplified great skill in command of cavalry troops in America’s war for Independence. Light-Horse Harry Lee was very close to George…

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Our beginnings

Why Start This Group?

This group started out of an outpouring of individual men desiring to find more like-minded men, develop tight friendships with those men, and see those friendships develop into a fraternal network that would orient each other’s willpower toward something good. We live…

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Our beginnings

Why Stonewall?

We chose Stonewall Jackson for a number of reasons, but mainly we find him to be one of the greatest archetypes of man produced in the history of the West: a man of high caliber and duty, well-read, but also possessing martial and practical skills as a man. In essence,…

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