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Catherine Maria McGrath, the daughter of James McGrath and Kathleen McGrath (nee Brennan) was born in London, England on December 6, ...

In his fine The Storm of War: A New History of the Second World War , Andrew Roberts relates the horrors of the war - the Final Solut...

I've been reading (and listening to) Andrew Roberts' exceptional The Storm of War: A New History of the Second World War .  H...

Our thirteenth president, Millard Fillmore , is typically cast as a craven milquetoast who facilitated the Compromise of 1850 because...

About a month ago I went to our wonderful local animal shelter, Father John's Animal House , and took photos of some of the animal...

Ariadne, enjoying a warm summer's eve.

I've been reading H.W. Brands's excellent biography of Ulysses S. Grant , The Man Who Saved the Union: Ulysses Grant in War ...

Max the lion sez that Memorial Day Weekend is gonna be a roarin' good time.

Yesterday, I finished reading Tom Holland's Rubicon: The Last Years of Roman Republic .  Excellent and highly recommended.  Even i...

Marcus Tullius Cicero gets Cato the Younger about right: nam Catonem nostrum non tu amas plus quam ego; sed tamen ille optimo ...

Saw this article today: Would you share a bath with eels?  New exfoliating treatment gains in popularity - but the risks will make your...

To the congress of the United States, and in a particular manner to the representatives of the people in this house, the period of the...

"General [William Henry] Harrison will be our next President, if he lives until the fourth of March next [1841]," said the Hu...

In the first half of the 1830s many of the states of the Union engaged in an orgy of spending to fund internal improvements - principal...

In all the hullaballoo over the debt ceiling and Obamacare negotiations (or non-negotiations) the Democrats have been complaining, amon...

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 ...