Robert Wilson

Robert Wilson’s first novel, The Love You Take, will be published in the fall of 2025. He is the author of biographies of Clarence King, Mathew Brady, and P. T. Barnum. He was the editor of the Scholar for more than 17 years.

Departures

By Robert Wilson | Friday June 3, 2011

War, Civil and Otherwise

By Robert Wilson | Wednesday March 2, 2011

Beyond the Genteel

By Robert Wilson | Wednesday December 1, 2010

The New Look

By Robert Wilson | Wednesday September 1, 2010

Earth Time

By Robert Wilson | Tuesday June 1, 2010

Depth Wish

By Robert Wilson | Monday March 1, 2010

Security Check

By Robert Wilson | Tuesday December 1, 2009

The End of Things

By Robert Wilson | Tuesday September 1, 2009

Watchers of the Skies

Heroes of British science, and the Romantic poets they inspired

By Robert Wilson | Tuesday September 1, 2009

War Stories

By Robert Wilson | Monday June 1, 2009

My First Novel

By Robert Wilson | Thursday October 16, 2025

A Career in the Arts

By Robert Wilson | Monday June 2, 2025
Old Christ Church in Alexandria. Virginia, attended by General Robert E. Lee in his youth and pictured here in 1911 (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign/Wikimedia Commons)

Divided Providence

By Robert Wilson | Thursday January 23, 2025

Notes and Outtakes

By Robert Wilson | Thursday June 1, 2023

Watch This Space

By Robert Wilson | Tuesday March 1, 2022

At 90

By Robert Wilson | Wednesday December 1, 2021

Critical Thinking

By Robert Wilson | Wednesday September 1, 2021

Interlude

By Robert Wilson | Wednesday June 2, 2021

Slouching Toward Tyranny

By Robert Wilson | Monday March 1, 2021

Unresolved

By Robert Wilson | Monday December 7, 2020

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