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by | Mar 5, 2022

The Jazz Age President: Defending Warren G. Harding By Ryan S. Walters (Regnery History, 320 pages, $25.44) Warren G. Harding,…

by | Feb 21, 2022

Real and fictional presidents have graced or disgraced the silver screen for its entire existence, encompassing half the history of…

by | Feb 9, 2022

An old English proverb recorded by John Heywood in 1546 (and who may or not have been a distant relative…

by | Feb 3, 2022

In the previous installments of this look back on the presidency of Franklin Roosevelt, I have identified specific policy areas…

by | Dec 20, 2021

Like many people my age (62), I was taught both at home and in school that Franklin Delano Roosevelt was…

by | Dec 17, 2021

It was an exceptionally dark night in Ruidoso, New Mexico, and I was riding in a car crawling down a…

by | Dec 9, 2021

When you walk the Fredericksburg battlefield, especially near the stone wall at the base of Mayre’s Heights (which is just…

by | Nov 19, 2021

Fans of John Keats (1795–1821) and F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896–1940) have a reason to celebrate. Esteemed Shakespeare scholar Sir Jonathan…

by | Nov 18, 2021

Sophie Halberstadt was 26 years old and pregnant with her third child when she fell ill with the Spanish influenza….

by | Aug 4, 2021

The International Olympic Committee has a penchant for choosing genocidal and repressive regimes as hosts for the Olympics and then…

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