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Some southerners before the Civil War famously cited the Bible’s apparent acceptance of the institution of slavery to support their c...

As I've mentioned before, I drive most days and spend much of that time listening to history-related podcasts and similar materials...

Kathleen's wake is today, and I can't resist adding a few more photos. With all her siblings: And last but not least...

Kathleen McGrath (nee Brennan), born 1927 in Wexford, Ireland, died on July 5th at home peacefully surrounded by her loving family and f...

Having re-read Russell Hoban's novel Riddley Walker last week, I can only shake my head in awe. The photograph at the top of ...

And Maxwell says, I love the taste of butt in the morning.

Between work and family commitments, I've barely been on the interweb since the Supremes' decision on Obamacare was handed down,...

I can't say I find Lewis Cass a tremendously attractive figure, but I can't help linking to this post on Cass by Paul Mirengoff...

In Did Muhammad Exist: An Inquiry Into Islam's Obscure Origins , Robert Spencer quotes from the Doctrina Jacobi , which contains ...

Orestes Brownson was leading member of the radical, locofoco wing of the Democratic Party back in the 1830s.  I was reading his essay ...

And Salome's chillin'.

I have discussed previously the ingenious history class in which Williams College students were asked to produce presidential campaign ...

And Salome says all is well.

I ran across a reference to this illustration, entitled Jeff. Sees the Elephant in a catalog of William Reese Company , a high end New...

  Charles Pinckney's June 8, 1787 motion to expand the federal veto to encompass "all laws which they [the Federal Legislatur...

On Tuesday May 29, 1787 , Virginia governor Edmund Randolph "opened the main business" of the Philadelphia Convention by int...

In her book The Ideological Origins of American Federalism lawprof Alison LaCroix explores a series of episodes from the Revolutionary ...

After several weeks of cool. damp weather, spring sprang yesterday afternoon, with temperatures shooting into the 70s.  This morning, th...

And Ariadne says, "Let's roll!"

You may know that in the beginning months of the Civil War President Lincoln issued a series of directives suspending the writ of habe...