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Showing posts with label History. Show all posts
Showing posts with label History. Show all posts
Sunday, February 20, 2022

1776 by David McCullough: Book 9 of 2022

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  I bought this book more than a year ago. A friend who teaches literature said he has read this book every couple of years for more than a ...
Friday, February 4, 2022

Book 7 of 2022: Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power

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  In a famous toast at a White House dinner in honor of 49 Nobel Prize winners, President John F. Kennedy said,  “ I think this is the most ...
Thursday, February 3, 2022

Book 6 of 2022: Civilization: The West and the Rest by Niall Ferguson

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  I wrote about this book when I read the first half of it late last year. I finished it and like it even more.   I wrote a post about the b...
Monday, January 24, 2022

A Healthy Culture Includes All of its History

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The French flag waving in the Arc d'Triomphe de l'Etoile on November 11 Few great cultures have been more self critical than French ...
Wednesday, January 12, 2022

Book 2 of 2022: Marie Curie--a graphic novel biography in middle-school-level French

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(In past years I have written an essay about the books I read in the previous year.  As my list of books gets longer and my memory shorter, ...
Thursday, January 6, 2022

January 6, 2021, the End of Democracy in America

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  Trump horde ending democracy in America From the beginning of my military service nearly 50 years ago, until the last my last day in the A...
Friday, December 17, 2021

Civilization by Niall Ferguson

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Civilization: The West and the Rest is the 10th of the 15 books  Niall Ferguson has written between 1995 and 2021  I love one-volume histor...
Tuesday, December 14, 2021

Thomas Jefferson and the First Draft of History

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Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power by Jon Meacham There is only one actual version of the past, but there are endless interpretations of ev...
Tuesday, January 1, 2019

My Favorite Book of 2018

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My favorite book of 2018: These Truths by Jill Lepore My favorite book of 2018 is Jill Lepore's new book "These Truths: A ...
Saturday, May 19, 2018

Gas Explosion vs. Guns in Texas

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In March 1937, 295 students and teachers died  in a natural gas explosion in a Texas school  When students in school die, the communi...