There is little ground in American historical writing better trod than the history of the Civil War. We all think we know the story –…
To be American, in some sense, is to live in a state of revolution. It is to find in the existing order what must be…
I wanted to put together a short list of books that have informed how I look at some of the topics related to the American…
If you grew up in the house that I grew up in, you knew you weren’t likely to get away with very much. But one…
In what should have been a rather unremarkable episode in American history, Abraham Lincoln took his watch in for repair to the shop of one…
“The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done: and there is…
The only time I read Charles Darwin’s Origin of Species was in the context of a philosophy class when I was an undergraduate. Alone out…