Zack Strong

Author, Creator, Teacher

United States

I'm a dyed-in-the-wool American patriot dedicated to defending Faith, Family, and Freedom. I am the father of two wonderful daughters and have a spectacular Panamanian wife. I am a Ph.D. student in History through Liberty University Online with an expected graduation date of mid-to-late 2027. I earned my Master's degree in History from Liberty University (2024), and have a Bachelor's degree in History with a minor in Political Science from Brigham Young University-Provo (2022). I hold a TESOL certification from UNI-Prep Institute (2021). I graduated as valedictorian from Port Lions High School in 2005.

Professionally, I recently started work as a Generalist Writer for Mercor writing and editing prompt-response pairs to train AI. For most of the past six years, however, I have taught online and in person. I taught middle and upper school U.S. and World History, Civics, and Current Events at The Lakeside School in Eufaula, AL, and U.S. and World History, American Government and Civics, and Economics and Personal Finance at Quitman County School District in Georgia. I previously taught secondary ELA, World Literature, College Prep World Literature, and Speech and Debate in my home state of Idaho, and English for three years via the global ESL tutoring platform Open English. I have five additional years of experience in and around schools working as an afterschool program coordinator, substitute teacher, coach, test proctor, aide, and so forth. I firmly believe that education is the key to all beneficial change in individuals and in society.

Writing is my lifeblood! It's the itch I must scratch; the compulsion I must indulge. I have self-published four non-fiction books on historical, political, and religious topics. Additionally, I have penned over 300 long-form articles, published a subscription-based newsletter, operated a personal podcast, and served as an admin for multiple social media accounts servicing more than15,000 followers. I created this portfolio to showcase some of my articles, graduate research, and other writings.

Thank you for taking the time to peruse my portfolio. Contact me if I look like someone you could work with or whose talent and passion could benefit your company. Cheers!

Online resume: https://bold.pro/my/zackstrong

Portfolio
The American Citadel
09/19/2019
The Constitution

Defend the Constitution - Defend America.

University Research Samples
Graduate Essays, Analyses, and Reviews

Assorted graduate essays and assignments written for Liberty University covering topics including Thomas Jefferson's Freedom Philosophy, Andrew Jackson Historiography, the Stamp Act Crisis, Samuel Adams, the Lesser Magistrates Doctrine of the Protestant Reformation, the Russian EMP threat, analyses of the Battles of Inchon and the Atlantic, book reviews, notes on the Founding Era of American History.

School
Sample Assessments

A sampling of assessments and assignments written and administered in the course of my career as an educator.

The American Citadel
08/03/2022
Regnat Populus

America is different from every other nation under the sun for a multitude of reasons. We are exceptional, special, and unique. This is not pride speaking; it is fact. One of the ways we are different is that in America the People are sovereign. In other words, regnat populus - the People rule.

News With Views
09/21/2022
The Animating Contest of Freedom

Are you willing to suit up for Freedom? Are you willing to risk it all in this noble cause? Are you willing to be called an "extremist" and do the revolutionary thing of defending Freedom?

The American Citadel
03/25/2024
Holier Week

Jesus died to make you holy.

The American Citadel
06/21/2023
Community

Resurrect the community spirit!

The American Citadel
07/02/2021
Blood-Bought America

American Freedom was purchased with the blood of patriots. Liberty has always required tremendous sacrifices to obtain and maintain. Thomas Paine said it best in 1776: "These are the times that try men's souls: The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of his country; but he that stands it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman.

The American Citadel
08/25/2020
Communism is Treason!

August 24 marks sixty-six years since President Eisenhower signed the Communist Control Act into law. Controlled press outlets from the New York Times to the Wall Street Journal excoriated the Act when it passed Congress, powerful think tanks and lobbying groups rose up in protest, and it was ultimately never enforced except in a handful...

The American Citadel
02/09/2020
Past Feeling

Baby Lives Matter!

The American Citadel
08/18/2023
Financial Tyranny

Acknowledge your financial servitude, then free yourself.

Sleuth and Scribble
04/07/2025
Religion and Morality - The Moral High Ground

Zack StrongApril 6, 2025 The day before President George Washington's second term concluded, the Philadelphia Clergy delivered an address commending his strong encouragement of religion and morality for the public good. President Washington, they averred, was an "edifying example" for all civil rulers because of his "powerful recommendation of religion & morality as the firmest...

The American Citadel
06/02/2017
Defend the Family

The family is the foundational building block of every society. To use an analogy that my Dad taught me, families are like cells in a body. When enough cells become damaged or die, the body deteriorates and eventually dies. In this analogy, society is the body.

The American Citadel
06/18/2021
God's Majesty

" Praise ye the Lord. . . . Praise him for his mighty acts: praise him according to his excellent greatness. . . . Let every thing that hath breath praise the Lord." - Psalm 150:1,2,6. As I drove in my car this morning, I listened to a wonderful album by Nashville Tribute Band called "Redeemer."