The Road to Redemption

By Robert R. Malkas

About the Book

The Road to Redemption is a revisionist history of what writers have been doing to revise the teaching of American history for generations. The book presents an alternate approach that takes readers back to a time when the nation was more united and schools prepared students to become victors instead of victims by presenting to them how America evolved into what now is the most powerful country in the world. It draws attention to those who are dedicated to destroy advancing man’s natural instincts to assimilate and allow all people to live useful lives. The intention of RTR is to open minds by providing unbiased accounts of what has happened to man’s universal search for meaning, and the obstacles that had to be overcome when those in power used their position to serve personal needs, and the methods taken to achieve them. It can be looked at as a classroom where the next generation will be prepared to accept their opportunities to live fruitful lives, and position them to be free thinkers. If parents believe schools are not serving the needs of children, they should become a more proactive part in the process. The Road to Redemption provides a blue print for them to take back control of their children’s future.

About the Author

The author’s professional career became at an early age when he decided that teaching history would become his future. He realized it would not be easy coming from a blue-collar family where funds were scarce. The solution was attending and graduating from an Illinois junior college, then commuting from the south-side of Chicago to DePaul University each day to earn a B.A in history and political science, and later a M.A from the same institution. He became a teacher at Mother of Sorrows High School and was on its faculty for 17 years teaching History and English. Ten of those years he served as Assistant Principal and held that position until MOS was forced to close because it could not compete with government funded public schools. He next turned his attention to aviation and became manager of the Lansing Municipal Airport and served in that position for the next 23-years until 2008. After his retirement he turned to writing about topics he was proficient in. The Village of Lansing and its Airport Past Present Future has been published recently. He has written over 40 articles for the Lansing Journal newspaper on topics of community interest. Those can be found if you Google Bob v

• Language: English
• Publisher: Dorrance Publishing Company
• Release date: Dec 20, 2023
• ISBN: 9798891272071

Book preview

Part One: 2023

Herodotus was a Greek writer widely credited as being the first historian.  He traveled widely during his lifetime sometime around 425 B.C.  The word historie means inquiry, not interpretation, yet today that has been adulterated.  Inquiry is no longer the goal.  Writing is used by some writers to pursue political, social, and cultural agendas, using history to further explain how as our nation has advanced as U.S. history developed.  Unfortunately, that approach has been successful, and is still working.

The teaching of U.S. history in our schools once wanted to provide what is required to give history students the capabilities to be supportive of our traditions and values, that have allowed us to be a nation that has proved successful for 250 years.  Still in 2023 there are organized movements and people who are dedicated to cancel that tradition and push a revised interpretation of it.

As the Founding Fathers began to work on what would become the U.S. Constitution, they were faced with unique challenges that would have to be addressed if America ever hoped to be a viable part of the nations of the world of that time.

To make it possible all thirteen colonies would have had to find a way to stand together as a united country, if they stood alone, they would not have had a chance to compete against England and France.

As each colony developed independently, they were controlled by the cultures they brought with them from Europe.  Geographic conditions in each region also determined the economics suited for each of them, and to determine how their local cultures would proceed. The southern colonies became agrarian because of warmer weather and abundance of land ready to be farmed; the Northern colonies became mercantile, and that made all the difference.

To get united it was easy to see some rules of confederation would be needed to satisfy the cultural requirements of those colonizing their region.  The South needed manpower to service their growing plantations.  The North urbanized and developed into cities, towns, and small farms.

America’s founding principle always was intended to be life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness for all.  That reality was a problem that needed to be resolved if there was a chance to have it happen.  Thirteen independent colonies would have been gobbled up by the British Empire, or France, which began to colonize on land to the north of the thirteen new colonies.

Ultimately, the Americans did find agreement because the framers compromised by necessity.   What the Constitution framers agreed to was not perfect because it accepted slavery as a particular institution in the states that would be required to maintain the economies of their soon to be developing planation system. Because the Northern colonies opposed the principle of slavery, they established laws to oppose it in the North.  It was then realized that compromise was the only way to achieve the best of all possible worlds. All colonies ultimately approved the document while understanding changes would be required as a united country developed. Even the slave states saw into the future and realized slavery could not continue, and would only be temporary as new farming innovations were discovered.  This reality was soon understood and because of that a solution was introduced—a Bill of Rights—ten amendments were included to the Constitution before it was adopted defining guaranteed civil rights as originally intended.  It opened the door for the possibility of new amendments being added as the nation’s culture would be changing. You could ask the question would the U.S. of A. have room for any legal slavery component in our developing economic