Lincoln Emancipated: The President And the Politics of Race edited by Brian R. Dirck; foreword by Allen C. Guelzo
January 28, 2025What is heartening is that, as Professor Michael Vorenberg stresses in his essay, Lincoln’s thinking about...
The Enlightenment and the Intellectual Foundations of Modern Cultureby Louis Dupre
January 26, 2025The seventeenth and eighteenth century philosophical movement that came to be known as the Enlightenment was...
Edmund Wilson: A Life in Literature by Lewis Dabney
January 26, 20251916 Princeton, a young and still slender Edmund Wilson was advised by professors to "seek the...
Empire of the Stars by Arthur I. Miller
January 25, 2025So why did Eddington savage his young colleague nine years later? Jealousy? Racism? A threat to...
The Future Without A Past: The Humanities In A Technological Society by John Paul Russo
January 25, 2025Weaver was referring, of course, to the media in all its forms and the pernicious effects...
A Grand Tour of Asia – by Hania Tallmadge and Beverley Jackson
January 25, 2025I’m not sure what category A Grand Tour of Asia by Hania Tallmadge and Beverley Jackson...
The Bloodiest Day: December 6, 1967
January 23, 2025In Lieutenant Morris’ words, “We moved into the woods and within minutes all hell broke loose.”...
The Great War for Civilisation: The Conquest of the Middle East by Robert Fisk
January 21, 2025The title of Fisk’s new work is a mocking one, taken from a campaign medal his...
The War of the World: Twentieth-Century Conflict and the Descent of the West by Niall Ferguson
January 21, 2025Niall Ferguson is hot—about as hot as a historian can get.
Wade Hampton: Confederate Warrior, Conservative Statesman by Walter Brian Cisco
January 21, 2025Biography, if it serves the reader, is best written not only with the exploits of the...