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Book Review: Short Nights of the Shadow Catcher by Timothy Egan
November 1, 2024The course of Curtis’ campaign to document the lives and life style of the Native American...
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Book Review: Lincoln’s Hundred Days by Louis P. Masur
October 28, 2024The determination to end slavery may not have figured initially as a Union war aim for...
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Book Review: Through the Eye of a Needle by Peter Brown
October 23, 2024Brown writes that Christian leaders had to carefully deploy Church resources, spiritual and financial, to create...
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Beyond the Hedgerows of Cornwall
September 26, 2024It is of all the Celtic kingdoms the greenest and most beautiful. Palms, wisteria, and camellias...
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Civil War 150 – A Readers’ Guide (Part 1)
August 23, 2024A sampling of new or recent books on the Civil War suggests that this bygone conflict...
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The Persecution of P.G. Wodehouse
August 16, 2024Was P.G.Wodehouse, the legendary master of farce, party to Nazi propaganda during World War II? This...
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Roses & Bulbul Birds
August 15, 2024What’s intriguing about the dreadful psychology of Muslim, particularly Shiite [read Hizbollah] fundamentalism, is that aspect...
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Jays, Films, and Georg Steller
August 14, 2024O’Brian based Aubrey on a Royal Navy captain of two centuries ago, Thomas Cochrane. Lord Cochrane’s...
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Oil and Africa
August 13, 2024[Editor’s note: The following is an excerpt from Adam Robert’s new book The Wonga Coup: Guns,...
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America’s Race to the Moon
August 12, 2024During the Apollo 15 mission, an anonymous viewer phoned his local TV station to suggest that...