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Julian The Apostate
November 27, 2023But with the death of Julian we have something different. To all intents and purposes we...
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Imag(in)ing America
November 27, 2023The confrontation between Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama was to the Italians the “political, intellectual, and...
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American Creation: Triumphs and Tragedies at the Founding of the Republic by Joseph J. Ellis
November 27, 2023Over the preceding two centuries, Ellis notes, a number of English, Scottish, and French thinkers had...
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Eugene Debs and the Fight for Free Speech
November 26, 2023Debs was the great voice of socialism in the United States for the first two decades...
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Nancy Love and the WASP Ferry Pilots of World War II by Sarah Byrn Rickman
November 24, 2023They were also a PR dream. Initially working for her future husband, Robert Love, the young...
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Curses on You, White Men!
November 23, 2023The inhumane acts committed by both sides in this war equal the most heinous crimes of...
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Notes from Italy: A Homer of the Dolomites
November 22, 2023Some say that the story of the Kingdom of Fanes is an epic that goes back...
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God’s Crucible by David Levering Lewis
November 22, 2023For English-speaking peoples, 1066 and 1776 still evoke powerful recollections of liberty lost and freedom won....
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The Naming of America by John W. Hessler
November 21, 2023But as we travel further and further from established trade routes, things become hazier. The Caspian...
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Fortune’s a River by Barry Gough
November 18, 2023By the closing years of the 18th century the stage was set for a major international...