"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...

Historians know more about the events of the past than the people who lived through them. Naturally, we can see events in proper perspecti...

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As is true for perhaps ten percent of my books, I know neither when nor how I acquired Polk: The Diary of a President, 1845-1849 (1968 [192...

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