Book Review: The Great Wave

When people talk about long wave economics, they’re usually talking about the Kondratieff Wave or perhaps even the Saeculum, waves that last on the average 60-80 years from trough-to-trough.  But there are

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The Burning of the Philadelphia

Editor’s note:  The following is excerpted from Hero Tales from American History, by Henry Cabot Lodge and Theodore Roosevelt. It is difficult to conceive that there ever was a time when the

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The Captivity of Richard Coeur de Lion

Editor’s Note:  The following account is taken from Historical Tales, by Charles Morris (published 1896). In the month of October, in the year of our Lord 1192, a pirate vessel touched land

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