BRUCE
In the early 1970s, Rock and Roll icon Bruce Springsteen recorded his first albums inspired by the lives of the blue collar working class. His...
Wilmington and Wildland
A history of the nineteenth century and another of the twenty-first, both inform the age in which we live. In Wilmington’s Lie: The Murderous Coup...
The Gift of Reading
I like to read. Typically, I am engaged with several books at a time. Here are a few that I am living with now and...
Three Takes on the 19th Century
Janice P. Nimura is the author of Daughters of the Samurai: A Journey from East to West and Back Again (2015). In her latest book,...
Spy Games II
During the past two decades, acclaimed British espionage historian Ben Macintyre has helped us see the major global conflicts of the twentieth century through a...
Spy Games
British intelligence officer Kim Philby spent nearly his entire career as a double agent (from 1934 to 1963), in the employ of the Soviet Union....
1865
Discussions of modern political divisions in the United States often include comparisons to the most divisive moment in the country’s history, the years leading up...
An Album of Thoughts
I judged a book by its cover and was not disappointed. In American Histories: Stories (2018) American novelist and essayist John Edgar Wideman weaves a...
On Hume
In The Great Guide: What David Hume Can Teach Us about Being Human and Living Well, independent scholar Julian Baggini proposes the idea – upon...
A Fan
The US Air Force has a tendency to periodically relocate its people and their families so, when I was in my ninth year on the...
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