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…
I wanted to put together a short list of books that have informed how I look at some of the topics related to the American…
Some time ago, I decided that I would start learning Spanish. I knew that as part of this endeavor, I would have to learn both…
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…
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…
In what should have been a rather unremarkable episode in American history, Abraham Lincoln took his watch in for repair to the shop of one…
Among the more interesting pieces of popular culture to appear in the last decade I would count the TV series Longmire, which originally aired on…