User:BenWetmore

Benjamin Wetmore - my contributions - wikipedia-profile

Writer, Researcher, Author, Attorney

Special Projects

• CREATING CURRICULUM: Primarily for Homeschoolers, on certain topics that I have expertise to share, and which I have not found a good course or curriculum elsewhere.

Soviet History - 2/64 Lectures done - 1/64 Homework done - 1/6 Exams done - 3/11 Essays done

Modern American History: 1945-Present - 0/24 Lectures done - 0/24 Homework done - 0/6 Exams done - 0/0 Essays done

The Soviet Espionage Cases: 1930-1991

History of the Conservative Movement: 1930-Present

History of the Pro-Life Movement: 1880-Present

History of Conservative Journalism: 1900-Present

• PLAIN TALK MAG: Creating a list of all the past issues of Plain Talk Magazine, bringing an extinct, non-archived publication from the 1950's back to life.
• CONFIDENTIAL MAG: Creating a list of all the past issues of Confidential Magazine, bringing an extinct, non-archived publication from the 1950's back to life.
• BENTLEY: Contextualizing the academics around Elizabeth Bentley. Kathryn Olmsted, Allen Weinstein, Harvey Klehr, Robert Louis Benson, John Earl Haynes, Ronald Radosh
• AREAS OF LAW SPECIALIZATION
• Fringe and Esoteric publications
• Governments - State Governments - Midwest States - Counties and Local Units of Government

Topics I am Interested In:

• Vietnam War
• Non-Profits | Interest Groups
• Journalism | Journalists | Dissident Media | Confidential Magazine (1952-1978)
• History | Historians | Historiography
• Government persecutions, censorship, and suppression

Subjects I am Reasonably Knowledgable About:

• U.S. History since 1933
• Soviet Union History: 1917-1991
• Soviet espionage and Influence Campaigns in America: 1930-1960
• Conservative Media | Journalism | Dissident Journalists | Muckraking | Howard Rushmore | John T. Flynn | Westbrook Pegler
• Media Law & Nonprofit Law | Constitutional Law

Publications I have written for:

• The Gateway Pundit & TGP Factcheck, 2019-2025
• Morris NorthStar, 2014-2016
• The Federalist, 2012-2015
• Human Events, 2003
• BenLadner.com, 2001-2003

Groups I have worked with in the past: Project Veritas | Leadership Institute | Intercollegiate Studies Institute | American Phoenix Foundation

Defunct Publications I am interested in:

• Confidential Magazine
• Plain Talk (magazine)
• Anti-Communist micromedia

Misc. Pages & Projects

• Henry Wallace
• Battle of Wake Island, 1941
• Juliet Poyntz
• Carlo Tresca
• 2015 Waco Biker Shootout
• Texas Legislature
• Rodger Young

Goals
I have a personal 2025-2026 goal to:

• a) Revive Confidential Magazine and Plain Talk Magazine's archives by the end of the year.
• b) Create at least 500 new Conservapedia pages by the end of 2025.
• c) Create at least 6 courses on Conservapedia by the end of the year.

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Trying to track down

• Robert Harrison's article about Howard Rushmore - "inside news" "howard rushmore" "Who Really Killed Howard Rushmore?"