5+ hour, 49+ min ago   (202+ words) The following is an installment of "On This Day," a new series celebrating America's 250th anniversary by following the actions of Gen. George Washington, the Continental Congress, and the men and women whose bravery and sacrifice led up to the signing…...

18+ hour, 17+ min ago   (967+ words) How we remember Gettysburg'Washington Examiner How we remember Gettysburg After the Battle of Gettysburg ended, 43-year-old Basil Biggs, a prominent member of the black community in the once-thriving town, returned to his tenant farm to discover the cost of the…...

1+ day, 10+ hour ago   (196+ words) The following is an installment of "On This Day," a new series celebrating America's 250th anniversary by following the actions of Gen. George Washington, the Continental Congress, and the men and women whose bravery and sacrifice led up to the signing…...

4+ day, 11+ hour ago   (484+ words) The following is an installment of "On This Day," a new series celebrating America's 250th anniversary by following the actions of Gen. George Washington, the Continental Congress, and the men and women whose bravery and sacrifice led up to the signing…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (222+ words) The following is an installment of "On This Day," a new series celebrating America's 250th anniversary by following the actions of Gen. George Washington, the Continental Congress, and the men and women whose bravery and sacrifice led up to the signing…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (292+ words) The following is an installment of "On This Day," a new series celebrating America's 250th anniversary by following the actions of Gen. George Washington, the Continental Congress, and the men and women whose bravery and sacrifice led up to the signing…...

1+ mon, 4+ day ago   (1621+ words) Deeply researched and surprisingly fun, "Revolutions: A New History" adopts a descriptive rather than analytical approach to revolutions. You say you want a revolution Ask someone to explain what "revolution" is, and there's a decent chance they will reply that,…...

2+ mon, 2+ day ago   (457+ words) In The Land Trap, Mike Bird of The Economist has given us something a little unexpected. It's a history of land ownership and its consequences that spans several centuries and multiple continents. The solution? Tax land, but not improvements to…...

2+ mon, 2+ week ago   (1009+ words) Jonathan Freedland's The Traitors Circle is an elegantly written account of courage, solidarity, and betrayal. The German resistance to Hitler When we think of those who stood up, spoke out, and took covert action against the Nazis, it is the…...

2+ mon, 4+ week ago   (1181+ words) While this iconoclasm may seem to be a late 20th-century development (one that culminated in the 21st century with the destruction of multiple statues of the Genoese mariner during the George Floyd ... In 1492, Christopher Columbus sailed the ocean blue. And however…...