History
History, Reviews
Review: Crashing Through, by Robert Kurson
Daniel Wahl August 20, 2011
Daniel Wahl reviews Crashing Through: The Extraordinary True Story of the Man Who Dared to See, by Robert Kurson.
History, Reviews
Review: Gauntlet, by Barbara Masin
John Cerasuolo August 20, 2011
John Cerasuolo reviews Gauntlet: Five Friends, 20,000 Enemy Troops, and the Secret That Could Have Changed the Course of the Cold War, by Barbara Masin.
History, Reviews
Review: The Fear, by Peter Godwin
Daniel Wahl August 20, 2011
Daniel Wahl reviews The Fear: Robert Mugabe and the Martyrdom of Zimbabwe, by Peter Godwin.
History, Politics & Rights
What to Celebrate on the Fourth of July
Craig Biddle July 3, 2011
On July 4, 1776, the Founders declared to the world not only that the colonies would henceforth be independent from Britain, but also, and more fundamentally, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and…
History, Reviews
Review: Operation Mincemeat, by Ben Macintyre
Daniel Wahl May 20, 2011
Daniel Wahl reviews Operation Mincemeat: How a Dead Man and a Bizarre Plan Fooled the Nazis and Assured an Allied Victory, by Ben Macintyre.
History, Reviews
Review: Anti-intellectualism in American Life
Burgess Laughlin May 20, 2011
Burgess Laughlin reviews Anti-intellectualism in American Life, by Richard Hofstadter, and The Age of American Unreason, by Susan Jacoby.
History
A Symphony of History: Will Durant’s The Story of Civilization
Dan Norton February 20, 2011
Examines this defining work of yet another man of the mind, showing, among other things, the remarkable scope and integration of Durant’s multivolume world history.
History, Science & Technology
Walt Disney’s EPCOT: The City of Tomorrow that Might Have Been
Gretchen Thomas February 20, 2011
Shows how this man of the mind designed and strove to develop a city of technology, industry, and commerce like none other to this day.
History, Reviews
Review: Nothing Less than Victory, by John David Lewis
Daniel Wahl August 20, 2010
Daniel Wahl reviews Nothing Less than Victory: Decisive Wars and the Lessons of History, by John David Lewis.
History, Science & Technology
Herman Boerhaave: The Nearly Forgotten Father of Modern Medicine
Richard G. Parker August 20, 2010
Looks at the accomplishments and legacy of a great hero of science, Herman Boerhaave, the nearly forgotten father of modern medicine, who may well be responsible for the fact that you are still alive.