In commemoration of the signing of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, signed 2 February 1848, a link to a video produced by Luis Valdez in 196...

Jorge Luis Borges, Selected Non-Fictions (1999) sits in a certain room of my house where I spend a lot of time waiting. By the end of 2010 ...

I remember Woodstock. These memories filter through intervening scenes, perspectives, and mentalités . I'm more a child of the Seventi...

"Am I a professor? Then what will I say today? But if I am a teacher, what will they do today?" Lendol Calder, 1370 The New So...

The Grateful Dead in concert at Radio City Music Hall, 23 October 1980. Concert audio is available at the Internet Archive as well as YouTu...

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

Rick Perlstein has a new book coming out in May. According to History News Network , Nixonland: The Rise of a President and the Fracturi...

History is the memory of states. Henry Kissinger The chapter, “The Age of Upheaval, 1960-1974,” in A Patriot’s History of the United Sta...