Spinning Clio

Original post 11/3/2005 Peggy Noonan's piece last week--in which she bemoaned America's plight as its political and journalistic el...

Originally posted 6/28/2005 In the course of an attempt to formulate a Christian (but not Providential) theory of History , the Elfin Ethic...

Original post 7/28/2006 I see that Ralph Luker has picked up on this Boston Globe piece about the last four surviving Shakers in America. ...

Original post 12/7/06 With this marking the 65th anniversary of the " day that will live in infamy ", inumerable editorials and e...

Jay Kinney, The Masonic Myth: Unlocking the Truth About the Symbols, the Secret Rites, and the History of Freemasonry . Even before I was a ...

Yikes, been a while! Anyway, I've written plenty about historiography and historical theory/methodology , but Heather Cox Richardson o...

Peter Berkowitz reviews Patrick Allitt's The Conservatives: Ideas and Personalities Throughout American History in the latest Policy R...

N.B. Cross-posted at Burgundians in the Mist . J.R.R. Tolkien's The Legend of Sigurd and Gudrun --his reworking of the Germanic/Norse l...

Just a little reminder that, from time to time, I do update my more "scholarly" Burgundians in the Mist blog . For those interest...

Scott Nokes recently went to Disney World and it got him wondering if " fairy tales necessarily gendered feminine ". Why? Well......

I guess intuitively I figured there must have been some southerners (even in the "Deep South") who didn't support secession or...

John F. Wasik, The Cul-De-Sac Syndrome: Turning Around the Unsustainable American Dream . After detailing the recent bursting of the housing...

In Warwick and Cranston, Rhode Island, Gaspee Day commemorates the sinking of the HBMS Gaspee by Rhode Islanders in 1772. From Wikipedia: ...

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

Doug Stanton, Horse Soldiers: The Extraordinary Stor of a Band of U.S. Soldiers Who Rode to Victory in Afghanistan . Almost immediately afte...

New color photos of Hitler have been released and are published in Life magazine. As a kid who grew up (mostly) in the age of all-color TV...

Mary Beard reviews T. P. Wiseman's Remembering the Roman People : This book is ground-breaking for its simple suggestion that the ideol...

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

Thomas M. Truxes - Defying Empire:Trading with the Enemy in Colonial New York Everyone in colonial New York City traded with the enemy (the ...

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