Considering revolution from a different viewpoint
An award-winning history illuminates the overlooked dimensions of American history.
All posts filed under: Monday Musings
Baseball is the belly-button of our society
My regular spring training routine includes reading a book about baseball.
The dandelion principle
Thoughts and images from our National Trust Tours trip to The Seychelles and Madagascar.
The narrative of America
A new book by Walter Isaacson considers one of the most famous sentences in American history.
Illuminating the past in light of the present
Eric Foner’s new book of essays reminds us that history remains visible today.
Citizenship (Revisited)
An old piece that is a reminder to “Love the neighbor you like and the neighbor you don’t like.”
Walking as a subversive act
My chat with Ann de Forest―editor of “Ways of Walking”―celebrating movement at a human pace.
There would be neither slaves nor masters
Allen Guelzo’s intimate study of Abraham Lincoln’s powerful vision of democracy.
Waiting for peace
In the third of the Maigret series, Georges Simenon writes of a crime where everything seems false.
Read when you’re happy, when you’re anxious, and in the moments in between
Ways to get closer to books.
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