A review of sorts Catherine Drinker Bowen, Miracle at Philadelphia: The Story of the Constitutional Convention, May to September 1787  (1966...

"[T]here remains the simple fact that the Black Death was, indeed, the greatest and most sustained demographic disaster in the history...

The Second Amendment by Michael Waldman My rating: 3 of 5 stars Disappointing On the one hand, The Second Amendment: A Biography offe...

A third place must be within walking distance from home, a place where one feels valued as more than a faceless consumer, where socializing,...

Victor Davis Hanson offers an ambitious thesis in Carnage and Culture: Landmark Battles in the Rise of Western Power (2001). He writes with...

Paul Johnson’s majestic A History of the American People (1997) purports to address three fundamental questions. These questions concern e...

Smith and Pocahontas In 1624 Captain John Smith published an account that he was rescued by Pocahontas from a death planned by her father,...

1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus Lots of books on history are written by journalists these days. Most are well-written ...

The New Journalism Hunter S. Thompson was representative of the era in which he lived. From his abuse of drugs to his love of guns, he refl...