About Stephen M. Klugewicz

Stephen Klugewicz is Editor of The Imaginative Conservative. He holds a Ph.D. in American History, with expertise in the eras of the Founding and Early Republic. A student of Forrest McDonald, Dr. Klugewicz is the co-editor of History, on Proper Principles: Essays in Honor of Forrest McDonald and Founders and the Constitution: In Their Own Words. He is the former executive director of the Collegiate Network at the Intercollegiate Studies Institute and has long experience in education and development, having served as Director of Education at the National Constitution Center, as Headmaster of Regina Luminis Academy, as executive director of the Robert and Marie Hansen Foundation, and and as Director of Development at Aristoi Classical Academy.

The Forgotten First Emancipator

By |2022-07-14T17:14:40-05:00December 8th, 2010|Categories: American Founding, American Republic, Books, Slavery, Stephen M. Klugewicz|

Robert Carter III of Virginia stands as the personification of the inconvenient truth that emancipation, even on a large scale, was entirely feasible in the United States, at least at the turn of the nineteenth century. “It seems to me a historian’s foremost duty to ensure that merit is recorded, and to confront evil deeds [...]

Let’s NOT Celebrate Constitution Day

By |2017-06-20T12:37:00-05:00September 16th, 2010|Categories: American Founding, American Republic, Conservatism, Constitution, Politics, Stephen M. Klugewicz|

For decades, modern conservatism has championed the Constitution of 1787 as the touchstone of American freedom and bemoaned the Left’s departure from the true meaning of the document as the cause of America’s political, economic, and even moral decline. Indeed, at the heart of the Tea Party movement is the sincere belief that if Americans [...]

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