Daniel Walker Howe, reviewing Walter Nugent's Habits of Empire, asks a good question:The most significant deficit of "Habits of Empire" is that the book pays too little attention to the perennial opposition to American imperialism. However common, imperialism has been consistently controversial throughout American history,...
history
Ari makes a good point:And furthermore, circling back to and expanding upon Wes Clark’s original point about experience, history is agnostic on whether great warriors make great presidents. In the.
John Quiggin, riffing off this Edward Lengel column, suggests that the respective experiences of Europe and the United States in World War I may explain cultural differences on the use.
Though I'm not a British historian, this is supremely cool. As Sharon Howard explains, the new Old Bailey site not only allows folks to search the records from more than 200,000 trials held at London's main criminal court, but it also includes digitized versions of...
Ari at The Edge of the American West points us to this Ilya Somin post that makes the best possible -- but I think ultimately unpersuasive -- case for Warren.
The school that hosted the greatest football scandal in NCAA history has topped itself by agreeing to host the George W. Bush library after The Decider shuffles off his presidential.
I'll probably have more to say tomorrow about this WSJ article by historian Edward Larson, but one passage strikes me mildly amusing for various reasons:[A] historian at Yale, the president's alma mater . . . told me that Mr. Bush regularly reads history and has...
Forgotten American blogging returns.