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I will not forget that day, or who our enemies are.

I've never read the Hebrew Bible before.  It's very weird.  By way of example, a quiz: On successive nights, this elderly w...

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...