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
MoreOriginally posted by Last Redoubt at https://lastredoubt.substack.com/p/old-ways Paper has a lot of problems. It’s bulky. It catches fire. More to the point, if I want to send something on paper to Japan,
More"It was in these disastrous days that Chateaubriand arose, and bent the force of his lofty mind to restore the fallen but imperishable faith of his fathers."
MoreIf we had to single out the special excellence which marks Ammianus as a writer of history, we should find it in his distinct gift for life-like portraiture.
More"I shall show you how the branches and tendrils of the plant of Bacchus are entwined about the history and the destiny of Rome."
More"All my works relate to the Fatherland, from whose soil they derive their strength."
MoreFrom the information coming out about the Titan submersible, it feels like Aeschylus could have written this play himself, but would have said, “This is so blatantly obvious that nobody will be
MoreEditor’s note: The following is extracted from Napoleon’s Marshals, by R. P. Dunn-Pattison (published 1909). “Go on, Ney; I am satisfied with you; you will make your way.” So spoke a captain
MoreI do not propose in this paper to enter into any general inquiry about the best method of writing history. Such inquiries appear to me to be of no real value, for
MoreGo where you will over the Lowlands of Scotland or England, or in western Europe over the countries south of the Danube, you will seldom find a district that cannot boast of
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