When I began reading A Patriot’s History of the United States eight months ago, perusing the footnotes quickly carried me astray. I’ve...

My evening history class ends at 10:00pm. After the short drive home, I need to read for a few minutes before I can fall asleep. Last night...

In a coffee shop this week, I overheard criticism of public school teachers that nearly pulled me into a conversation that was mostly none o...

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

Written in a spiral notebook 28 June 1995, Fort Loudon Lake, Tennessee. What we call history and what we call the novel are more recent than...