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Unhistory Monday: The Impossibility of Writing Truthfully About a Battle 27 Aug 2013 | 10:24 am
Tweet This Post The Chief, the Quartermaster, the Adjutant-General, know well enough what the strength of the army is, and can map out to a quarter of a mile where it lies; but to the casual and igno...
A Week in Michigan 27 Aug 2013 | 09:00 am
Tweet This Post When my sister and I were very young, I was 10 and she was 7, we used to go on vacation to a small village on the lake in Michigan. It is named Grand Beach. It’s a delightful place ac...
Unhistory Monday: The General 27 Aug 2013 | 12:17 am
Tweet This Post The best written portrayal of Douglas MacArthur. More truthful than factual.
Ivan Aivazovsky, naval painter 26 Aug 2013 | 01:11 am
Tweet This Post Ivan Aivazovsky (1817 – 1900) was in his time famous around the world, and deservedly so. This picture is about the Battle of Navarino in 1827. There are others at the Wikipedia page...
The Future of Media (?) 25 Aug 2013 | 10:25 pm
Tweet This Post As I was walking in River North I stopped short after seeing this sign for “Buzz Feed”. If you don’t know the name, they are a very successful internet site (is that what you call it ...
City Living 25 Aug 2013 | 09:48 pm
Tweet This Post For those of you reading this post from the suburbs or rural America you won’t know why this photo of the River North Walgreens drug store is so unique, but city dwellers might if the...
Do The Great Books Have a Place in the 21st Century? 24 Aug 2013 | 11:31 pm
Tweet This Post Originally posted at The Scholar’s Stage on the 27th of May, 2013. A selection of the 60 volume Great Books of the Western World. Image source. A “proper education” changes with its...
Reality lives in the details 24 Aug 2013 | 08:22 pm
Tweet This Post Sometimes you come across a comment that passingly mentions a central truth that you just want to climb up on a roof and shout it out to the world. That! Pay attention to that! Trent...
History Friday: With Winston Churchill at the Front 24 Aug 2013 | 02:54 am
Tweet This Post I am reading Churchill: A Study in Failure (1970), by Robert Rhodes James. It is a famous book, which describes Churchill’s career up to 1939. It is an excellent book as of page 132/3...
Camille Paglia Applies Old-Fashioned Common Sense 24 Aug 2013 | 02:07 am
Tweet This Post …and thereby misses the real story. Writing about Hillary Clinton as the prospective Democratic presidential candidate, Camille Paglia asks “What exactly has she ever accomplished?” ...
