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April 26, 2017

The Cost of Desegregation

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

June 4, 2019

History in Ancient Greece (Part 2): Herodotus

Editor’s note: The following is extracted from History, by Bernadotte Perrin (published 1912). (Go back to previous chapter) But the Ancient History of the Greeks never emancipated itself wholly from the influence of the epic poems. The revolt against it

June 6, 2019

History in Ancient Greece (Part 3): Thucydides

November 4, 2020

A Sham “Election Day”

Art·Culture·History·Literature·Survival·Technology

Old Ways

July 19, 2023

Editor’s note: Originally 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

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Chateaubriand (Part 1)

July 18, 2023

"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."

Film·History

Friday Movie: Turning Tide

July 14, 2023

History

The Last of the Latin Historians

July 10, 2023

If 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.

Culture·History

Wine in Roman History

July 1, 2023

"I shall show you how the branches and tendrils of the plant of Bacchus are entwined about the history and the destiny of Rome."

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Jacob Grimm

June 25, 2023

"All my works relate to the Fatherland, from whose soil they derive their strength."

Culture·History·Literature

The Titan Has Fallen

June 23, 2023

From 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

History

Marshal Ney: The Bravest of the Brave

June 17, 2023

Editor’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

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Thoughts On History

June 2, 2023

I 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

Culture·History·Religion

Europe After the Fall of the Roman Empire (476-754 AD)

May 22, 2023

Go 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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