By Caroline Randall Williams NEW YORK TIMES, June 26, 2020 If there are those who want to remember the legacy of the Confederacy, if they...

His name was Thomas Dartmouth Rice, a New York entertainer who performed under the stage name of T. D. Rice. In 1828, Rice had been a...

The book is entitled, "The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone And How We Can Prosper Together", by Heather McGhee. What the book does...

It seems we live in a caste society. This is the message of "Caste: The Origins of our Discontents" by Isabel Wilkerson, a Pulitzer...

Thomas E. Ricks, a Pulitzer Price winning war correspondent, focuses his considerable reporting skill on the American Civil Rights...

CHAPTER 8:  A QUESTION OF BALANCE Oliver Ellsworth: now there’s a Founding Father you rarely hear about. Ellsworth was not a pamphleteer...

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The last thing I needed was to read another Lincoln biography. But a Lincoln biography given to me by my brother Charles, continued to...

This very special Lincoln biography, originally published in 1952, benefits from the 1947 opening of the Robert Todd Lincoln Collection...

What this book does masterfully well is show how the president-elect Abraham Lincoln shored up northern morale in preparation for the...

In an age of political cynicism, name calling, and deep political division (where political opponents are routinely demonized), it's...

The California of the 1850s that greeted the first wave of American settlers was primarily comprised of large, fenceless cattle ranches...

One of the most famous roads in all the world is California Route One, a coastal highway that traverses the entire length of the state. ...

Seasons Greetings, The followings is “A Dish for a Poet” which is read aloud at our house this time each year, and never fails to amuse:...

We visited Philadelphia recently, specifically Old Town, that part of the city where the Founding Fathers created the Declaration of...

Book Review: Travels with George: In Search of Washington and His Legacy, by Nathaniel Philbrick. I've read countless books about George...

The last thing I needed was to read another Lincoln biography. But a Lincoln biography given to me by my brother Charles, continued to...

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February 22 is George Washington’s birthday. Below is my review of “Cincinnatus: George Washington and the Enlightenment,” by Pulitzer...

It was the time of the huddled masses, of immigrants, slums and overcrowded cities, of long hours and deplorable working conditions in...