We have been hailing the Civil Rights Era as a grand and universal success for decades. Desegregation is an unquestionable good in the eyes of all good Americans. So, let’s take a
MoreBalkan Worlds: The First and Last Europe. Traian Stoianovich. Armonk, New York: M.E. Sharp, Inc., 1994. 432 pp. $24.95. ISBN 1-56324-033-5 Traian Stoianovich has composed a comprehensive treatment of the Balkans,
MoreAt the end of 2016, I posted a piece on The Muslim Question. There, I gave a brief historical survey of the centuries-long conflict between the Christian West and the Mohammedans. Some
MoreEditor’s note: The following is excerpted from Giovanni Papini’s The Life of Christ. While Papini’s interpretations of Scripture are sometimes questionable or even false, and though he is given to intellectual musings
MoreAs a child, I often wandered around the 3-story brownstone mansion (so it seemed to me) of my grandparents. Memory renders it a mythical place, set at the end of a winding road at
MoreEditor’s Note: The following is excerpted from Young’s Civil Government, a civics primer for home and school use published in 1848. “The grand object of civil government is to secure to the members
MoreIn this silly season of American politics, a common conversation is held in barbershops and forums, in person and on the web: Who was the greatest of all American presidents? In my
MoreMany patriots these days lament that the Republican Party has lost its way and gone wrong. It has diverged from the fiscally responsible, small government philosophy of Republican heroes like Robert Taft
MoreEditor’s Note: The following is excerpted from The Lives of Patriots and Heroes, by John S. Jenkins (1847). At the time this book was published, the memory of Nathan Hale, and his
MoreNathanael Greene was a true Man of the West. Oddly enough, those who first met him often discounted his strength and attributes. You see, Greene had a pronounced limp and had no
MoreSoutheastern Europe Under Ottoman Rule, 1354-1804. Peter F. Sugar. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1977. 365 pp. $34.95. ISBN 0-295-96033-7 Peter Sugar presents this volume in the History of East Central
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