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…
Every nation, every community, has rituals and observances that bind it together. Every year, Russians celebrate the Soviet Union’s victory in their Great Patriotic War…
American conservatives have a funny relationship with their American patriotism, and really with the whole of American nationality itself. The central feast on the American…
On November 28, 1493, Christopher Columbus returned to the Caribbean outpost of Navidad after a long voyage only to find a horrifying sight. The men…
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…
Many non-Americans enjoy teasing Americans about our habit of identifying ourselves using ethnic and cultural descriptors from Old World societies. Looking across this nation, “hyphenated…
Somewhere, buried in a pile of various albums my family keeps lies a superficially unremarkable CD one would not think too different from the musical…
“I really believed that around the whole house, and the ground around it, the air itself was different. It was not the air of heaven.…
“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…