New Online University for Conservatives Takes Its Text From the American Revolution

By MICHAEL ARNONE

Dismayed by what he perceives as a liberal bias in American higher education, Richard J. Bishirjian recently created Yorktown University, an online institution that is tailored to conservatives (http://yorktownuniversity.com).

Mr. Bishirjian -- a former political-science professor at the University of Dallas and at the College of New Rochelle, in New York -- and 54 other instructors started teaching in June at the institution, which is

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