Americans have fought in Libya before. In 1801 Tripoli declared war on the US – the first state to do so, I believe. Tripoli, Morocco, Algiers and Tunis –…
The Wisconsin GOP’s attack on UW history professor, William Cronon is consistent with the strategy Gov. Scott Walker implemented the day he was elected. As I wrote last month, Walker will…
Update: See hat tips at post’s end. (25 March, 2011 (19:05)) Yesterday, I had time between appointments in Boston. So, I played tourist and visited the Granary Graveyard and…
As the two principal characters of ‘Another Year’, appeared on screen, my wife whispered, ‘It’s so nice to visit Tom and Gerri again.’ And, so it was. …
In the last quarter century, states from Virginia to Colorado to California have seen privatizing roads as a great source of immediate cost savings and cash. But what do these…
One of my favorite scientist-writers is physicist Jeremy Bernstein. On the New York Review of Books blog on March 14 he posted a primer on tsunamis. It is worth reading.…
Looked at today through the lens of the Shoah, the thuggery of the pre-war Nazis seems as obvious as its signals of things to come. It wasn’t so clear to…
I find writing about art difficult. I struggle, sometimes, with how to describe the artist or her art in the obligatory topic sentence. Rachel Perry Welty poses that problem. No…
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