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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 ...

This is just too bad . Plymouth police say vandals broke into Plimoth Plantation , damaged eight houses, smashed fence sections and stole fu...

Kevin J. Hayes, The Road to Monticello: The Life and Mind of Thomas Jefferson . This book could easily have been titled, "Jefferson the...

Trevor Burnard , in a piece on the importance of geography over time for historians of Colonial America explains why this is so: Why are ear...

What is it about sharks? Welp, whatever, but Jeff Sypek at "Quid Plura" has decided to host " Medieval Shark Week ". M...

The Pursuit of History: Aims, Methods and New Directions in the Study of Modern History (3rd Edition) and Historians on History: An Anthol...

Jeffrey Kluger: Simplexity: Why Simple Things Become Complex (and How Complex Things Can Be Made Simple) What, or who, is more effective at...

Peter Navarro, The Coming China Wars: Where They Will be Fought, How The Can Be Won . The purpose of this book is to warn that unless strong...

The first thing I thought of when I read the story about the 17 wanna-be baby mamas of Gloucester, Massachusetts were the teenage girls who...

Providence, Rhode Island's sunken Russian submarine will finally be raised as part of a training exercise by the US Navy. The sub, whic...

A new book by Rhode Island author Gerald Carbone, Nathanael Greene: A Biography of the American Revolution , may finally put one of America...

Karen Abbott, Sin in the Second City: Madams, Ministers, Playboys and the Battle for America’s Soul. Minna and Ada Everleigh owned the preem...

I wonder if they were talking about this at K'Zoo : With no end in sight to the rise in fuel prices, commuters in Albany are using a ne...

'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...