Things Have Changed

From Russell Crowe, answering a question about which of his films young men should watch.  His responses; Gladiator, Master and Commander, a...

On this date in 1969 the initial withdrawal of American troops from South Vietnam began as ordered by President Nixon a few weeks earlier.  ...

Excerpts from address by President Calvin Coolidge, Address on the Celebration of the 150th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, ...

   The 2015 post, Belisarius Enters Rome , discussed the decline and slow rise of the city of Rome from the 4th to the 19th centuries.  Most...

An edited and updated version of a post from the past about the finest pop song about an historical event, Al Stewart's Roads To Moscow....

Towards the beginning of this year I began listening to Richard Elliott Friedman's 29 hour long lectures on the Hebrew Bible.  I'd n...

It is natural to feel nostalgic for what the Empire was, just as one might regret the gentle light of oil lamps, the splendor of the fleet a...

Substack has become a valuable resource for me.  While already familiar with some authors, I've also discovered many others writing on ...

Sad news today.  Gordon S Wood, the great historian of early America, died when hit by a car in the parking lot of a Shaw's supermarket ...