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Abraham Lincoln: A Life by Michael Burlingame
April 8, 2025Never perhaps has there been such a masterful account of the man’s failures—and successes—in this country’s...
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Journalism’s Roving Eye: A History of American Foreign Reporting by John Maxwell Hamilton
April 7, 2025Not all of the foreign correspondents for American papers were themselves American. Karl Marx contributed almost...
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Dear President-Elect Obama, We Need Trains, Too!
March 20, 2025President-elect Obama said in his radio address on Saturday, January 10, that “We’ll put nearly 400,000...
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Tried by War: Abraham Lincoln as Commander in Chief by James M. McPherson
March 17, 2025Lincoln came to the Presidency without any real military experience. He had been an Illinois militia...
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Engaging, Not Confronting, Russia
March 10, 2025The West would exacerbate rather than ease this problem if it brought Georgia into NATO. Nor...
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A Boy’s View of a World War
March 7, 2025The three Libby’s men were the first American businessmen to receive Allied permits to travel to...
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Notes from Italy: A Homer of the Dolomites
March 1, 2025Some say that the story of the Kingdom of Fanes is an epic that goes back...
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Worries of a Liberal Conservative
February 26, 2025My friend objects that “Islamofascists” will never change their ways. Sure, there are deadly and dangerous...
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Notes From Italy: Villains, Romance, and Views
February 24, 2025Filettino was not always a happy place, in history or in fiction. In the time of...
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Notes from Italy: Getting into the Mountains
February 20, 2025I did not know that Neanderthals once lived hereabouts; that farmers first settled here six thousand...
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