Spinning Clio

A couple years ago, while dismantling a piece of contemporary policy-wonkism, Jim McCormick explained Peter Heathers' Fall of the Roman...

Rhode Island and Providence Plantations was established by Royal Charter in 1663 : Because titles to these lands rested only on Indian deed...

CSPAN has another Presidential rating survey out. I don't have time for an extended "review" (well, frankly, my general resp...

Douglas E. Schoen and Michael Rowan, The Threat Closer to Home: Hugo Chavez and the War Against America . In the Preface, Schoen and Rowan e...

Patrick Reddy has a fair recounting of the Bush Presidency and how history will view it. His conclusion ( emphasis added ): What will be ve...

From the Politico : [T]here are early rumblings of a backlash to Obama's ostentatious embrace of all things Lincoln, with his not-so-sub...

It took historians a full term of George W. Bush's presidency before they declared he was " the worst president ever. " Now, ...

Obviously, the historical importance of the moment is unmistakable. An African-American President has been elected through the normal means...

Thomas J. Craughwell (with M. William Phelps), Failures of the Presidents: From the Whiskey Rebellion and War of 1812 to the Bay of Pis and ...

Jay Hakes , A Declaration of Energy Independence: How Freedom from Foreign Oil Can Improve National Security, Our Economy, and the Environme...

Matt Damon is adapting Howard Zinn's "A People's History of the United States” into a documentary. That's just great. Wa...

Ralph Luker called attention to Ending Tyranny: The Past and Future of an Idea by John Lewis Gaddis, and (after dissing Victor Davis Hanse...

Sean Wilentz's head must be spinning. It must be tough to have been firmly ensconced within the fraternity of Democratic Party House Hi...

Jeff Sypeck at Quid Plura explains that the people in the center of the Russia/Georgia conflict consider themselves to be contemporary Alan...

Peter Navarro , author of The Coming China Wars ( reviewed here ), is critical of ABC's Bob Woodruff's recent " China Inside ...

Richard Clarke, Your Government Failed You: Breaking the Cycle of National Security Disasters Your government failed you. So said Richard ...

I've done a few substantive posts about the Barbary Wars in the past. Michael Medved is the latest (here's another ) to use them ...

'Spose "kudos" are in order to the Cliopats and their fellow travelers for the part they played in helping He Who Is Change g...

John Harwood and Gerald F. Seib, Pennsylvania Avenue: Profiles in Backroom Power , (New York, Random House, 2008). Pennsylvania Avenue...

For my money, National Review's John O'Sullivan does a better job explaining the historical reasons for electing Obama than do the ...