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April 26, 2017

The Cost of Desegregation

We have been hailing the Civil Rights Era as a grand and universal success for decades. Desegregation is an unquestionable good in the eyes of all good Americans. So, let’s take a

June 4, 2019

History in Ancient Greece (Part 2): Herodotus

Editor’s note: The following is extracted from History, by Bernadotte Perrin (published 1912). (Go back to previous chapter) But the Ancient History of the Greeks never emancipated itself wholly from the influence of the epic poems. The revolt against it

June 6, 2019

History in Ancient Greece (Part 3): Thucydides

December 16, 2019

Decline And Fall Of The United States

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Westminster Abbey

April 2, 2025

Part of America's sacred heritage as well as England's.

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Caesar, A Creator of History

March 15, 2025

"He had the power to enkindle others with the torch of his own restless energy, that burned in him till at last it consumed even his almost deathless vitality."

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Henry V, King of England

March 1, 2025

Henry, the fifth English monarch of that name, was born at Monmouth, on the banks of the pleasant Wye, in the year 1384-5. He was the eldest son of Henry earl of

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Bonapartism: The Downfall

February 6, 2025

The Italian War was the turning-point in the history of the Second Empire. Up to 1860 everything seemed to have succeeded with the man who twelve years before could not boast of

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Bonapartism: The Rise of the Second Empire

February 5, 2025

Louis Bonaparte, the nephew of Napoleon, was the third son of Louis, the ex-King of Holland, and his wife Hortense Beauharnais. He was born in 1808, recollected having seen his illustrious uncle

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Bonapartism: The Growth of a Legend

February 4, 2025

The Bourbon dynasty who were recalled to France in 1814 owed this sudden favour of fortune to no merit of their own. Their party was almost extinct, their persons dim and forgotten,

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Bonapartism: Napoleon and Europe

February 3, 2025

To those who concentrate their attention upon the civil work of Napoleon, upon the chaos which he found and the order which he created, and above all upon the endurance of his

History

Bonapartism: The Napoleonic State

February 2, 2025

It was part of France's good fortune that the man who came to save her was himself a homeless adventurer, sprung not of French but of Italian stock, and attached to no

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Bonapartism: The Bequest of the Revolution

February 1, 2025

There is no mystery about the origins of Bonapartism. It is the child of Napoleon Bonaparte and the French Revolution, deriving its force and vitality not only from the genius of the

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The Church and the Gods

January 1, 2025

We talk familiarly, in an off-hand way, of the Church and the world. Oftentimes we attach to the world the notion of a society which is pursuing secular objects and neglecting religion;

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The Cost of Desegregation

History in Ancient Greece (Part 2): Herodotus

History in Ancient Greece (Part 3): Thucydides

Decline And Fall Of The United States

Westminster Abbey

Caesar, A Creator of History

Henry V, King of England

Bonapartism: The Downfall

Bonapartism: The Rise of the Second Empire

Bonapartism: The Growth of a Legend

Bonapartism: Napoleon and Europe

Bonapartism: The Napoleonic State

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