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Marcus Porcius Cato the Elder (234BC-149BC) was a piece of work  Gotta love him.  Who else would toss a senator out of the Senate for e...

Make no mistake, we are at war with untold numbers of barbarians who would kill us and rejoice if they could.  If we continue to pretend...

For reasons unknown, I was leafing (virtually) the other day through Varina Davis's memoir of her late husband, Jefferson Davis , e...

Benjamin “Beast” Butler was not a great officer, but he did amass some notoriety during the war by, among other things, authorizing...

In What the Hell Happened to William Seward? I explored William Seward's pre-Civil War reputation for anti-slavery radicalism in ...

Over at Bull Runnings , Harry Smeltzer has a great interview with Prof. Allen C. Guelzo of Gettysburg College on the occasion of the ...

In a series of posts written a number of years ago, I argued that slavery was a thriving institution in 1860 and that there was every re...

In an important new article, “To Regulate,” Not “To Prohibit”: Limiting the Commerce Power , Barry Friedman and Genvieve Lakier argue t...

Over at the Daily Caller they have produced a Top Ten List of the most badass American political names .  And there, lo and behold, is ...

Do you know John Hughes ?  The excellent City Journal site is currently featuring a wonderful older (but new to me) article on New Yor...

I'm never sure when to celebrate Johann Sebastian Bach's birthday, since he was born on March 21, 1685 ( o.s ) and March 31, 1...

The Epistle of Barnabas was reportedly in the running to be a book of the New Testament.  It's a good thing it lost.  Apart from t...

In the latter part of July 1788, the convention convened in Poughkeepsie to determine whether New York would ratify the United States C...

I failed to mark James Madison's birthday yesterday, but not to worry: over at Millard Fillmore's Bathtub , Ed Darrell noted th...

I posted recently on Lawprof Seth Barrett Tillman's fun article posing Six Puzzles for Professor Akhil Amar . Now I see that a...

Over at Concurring Opinions, Lawprof Gerard Magliocca points out that James Wilson "was probably the only Founder to play golf....

As you may have heard, Emory University President James Wagner wrote a column earlier this year in which he praised the Three-Fifths C...