Safeguarding Western Tradition: History, Education & Roman Legacy

This text stresses understanding Western tradition, detailing how the Roman Empire's fall shaped European states, addresses modern historical neglect, and highlights educational initiatives like The Golden String with Hillsdale College, alongside a Rome restoration at the Baths of Trajan.

It’s committed to the idea that discovering our own human being ought to take concern over finding out about others, which we will not understand why it’s so important to safeguard our tradition without first understanding it.

Historical Foundations of Western Development

It was the failure of attempts to reconstitute versions of the Western Roman empire that made possible the system of contending European states that drove so much development and enabled the room for restored experiments in republican government in Italian city-states and in Northern European free cities.

“It needs to come as no surprise,” co-authors Allen Guelzo and James Hankins create in the intro, “that the recent generations of Westerners who think that the West is uniquely evil have been instructed nothing at all concerning it.”

Addressing Historical Neglect through Education

“The Golden String” isn’t simply a publication: Hankins and Guelzo have a Substack devoted to more exploring its themes, and the author, Experience Publications, has partnered with Hillsdale College to produce an educational program for teachers.

An inauguration is held complying with the traditional remediation of the southwestern Exedra and the underground gallery including the remains of the “Painted City” building and the Great Mosaic “of the Muse and the Thinker” at the Baths of Trajan on Tuesday, September 8, 2026, in Rome, Italy.
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