A bit of a hiatus coming up here as the family gets in some vacation time in Orlando. I was going to post the Disney World secrets book,...

Stoessinger's book has stayed with me since I first read it for Tom Trout's American foreign policy class 25 years ago. He evaluates the...

I noted yesterday that I'd have an early take on the Democratic presidential primary, including a potential candidacy by Vice President...

We all remember adolescence. Awkwardly trying to fit in and stand out all at once, some days just desperate to survive in a world of...

I have tremendous respect for the American Presidency. Probably too much respect. More than is healthy. As a kid I read everything I...

English history can be maddening to read. For such a small island, they cram a lot of narrative into every hamlet and bend in the road -...

As a science fiction writer, I'm a lousy scientist. I struggled through chemistry and physics in high school despite the best efforts of...

I'm going to consider this two-volume set as non-fiction as it's essentially the historic documentation of the most original, scathingly...

We've talked about John Adams on here already, but his story is woefully incomplete without mention of his special partnership with one...

I'm home, which is good. I feel about nine hundred years old, which is less good, but I'm still here. All I have energy for today is a...

For the birthday of perhaps our greatest president, I thought I’d share Garry Wills’s enjoyable treatise on perhaps our greatest...

Demagoguery isn't new in America. Since the inception of the republic we've had ambitious souls who manipulated the masses for political...