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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

History

Tarnished Brass – A History of the Kansas Fifteenth Volunteer Cavalry, Part II

January 17, 2019

(Continued from Part I) Part II – Retreat to the Little Blue By mid 1864, many in the Confederate States of America were searching for a political door out of the Civil

Culture·History·Literature

The Raid of Cilliechriost

January 16, 2019

Editor’s note: The following is extracted from Historical Tales and Legends of the Highlands, compiled by Alexander MacKenzie (published 1878). All spelling in the original. The ancient Chapel of Cilliechriost, in the

History

Tarnished Brass – A History of the Kansas Fifteenth Volunteer Cavalry, Part I

January 16, 2019

Part I – The Flawed Fifteenth “QUANTRELL has at least 1,000 men near the Kansas line.” Thus did the New York Times encapsulate both the fear and rage of Kansans in the

History·Nationalism

The Battle of the Baltic (1801)

January 15, 2019

Editor’s note: The following is extracted from Deeds That Won the Empire, by W. H. Fitchett (published 1897). All spelling in the original. “Let us think of them that sleep Full many

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Belle Boyd: The Confederate Girl Who Saved Stonewall Jackson

January 14, 2019

Editor’s note: The following is extracted from The World’s Greatest Military Spies and Secret Service Agents, by George Barton (published 1917). That brilliant writer, Gilbert Chesterton, in one of his paradoxical essays

Culture·History·Literature·Philosophy

Man of the West: Lucius Annæus Seneca

January 12, 2019

Editor’s note: The following is extracted from Famous Men of Ancient Times, by S. G. Goodrich (published 1843). All spelling in the original. This individual, whose “Morals” are so familiar to us,

Culture·History·Literature·Religion

"Lepanto" by G. K. Chesterton

January 10, 2019

Editor’s note: G. K. Chesterton’s poem Lepanto (1911), celebrating the great 16th century naval victory of the Holy League over the Ottoman Turks, is a work exuberantly Catholic and dense with historical

Culture·Enemies·History·Religion

The Battle of Lepanto (Part 2)

January 9, 2019

Editor’s Note: The following is extracted from Famous Sea Fights from Salamis to Tsu-Shima, by John Richard Hale (published 1911). All spelling in the original. (Continued from Part 1) At sunrise the

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The Battle of Lepanto (Part 1)

January 8, 2019

Editor’s Note: The following is extracted from Famous Sea Fights from Salamis to Tsu-Shima, by John Richard Hale (published 1911). All spelling in the original. The Turk has long been known as

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"The Inheritance of Humor" by Hilaire Belloc

January 7, 2019

Editor’s note: The following is extracted from First and Last, by Hilaire Belloc (published 1911). All spelling in the original. There are some truths which seem to get old almost as soon

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