Articles of Note

The women of the Napoleonic wars, unable to serve in battle, advanced their politics via other means... more »

New Books

“As inventive and inspiring as Emerson and Thoreau often were, their zeal for ‘individual freedom’ has curdled into a socially destructive force” ... more »

Essays & Opinions

W.E.B. Du Bois’s masterly “Black Reconstruction” got a vitriolic reception in 1935. The vitriol lingers on... more »