Domestic Insurrection

Rough Crossings: Britain, Slaves, and the American RevolutionBy Simon Schama / Forgotten Allies: The Oneida Indians and the American Revolution By Joseph Glatthar and James Kirby Martin

Tomorrow Is Another Day

An Ethiopian student survives a brutal imprisonment by translating Gone with the Wind into his native tongue

Autumn 2006

Eclogues

Best Person Rural: Essays of a Sometime Farmer By Noel Perrin

Bearing Gifts

The Preacher’s Wife

The Mind-Brain Problem

Psychologist Jerome Kagan has always known that biology is only a partial solution

An Argument for Mind By Jerome Kagan

Worked Well with Others

Discovering the structure of DNA was not Francis Crick’s only important collaboration

Francis Crick: Discoverer of the Genetic Code By Matt Ridley

Half-Brother to the World

The United States has been more like other nations than we like to think

A Nation Among Nations: America's Place in World History By Thomas Bender

African Renaissance?

Finding hope on a continent where many people see only despair

New News Out of Africa: Uncovering Africa's Renaissance By Charlayne Hunter-Gault

The Epic Viking Saga of the Everyday

Eleanor Barraclough on the ordinary people of Norse history

All Talk

Ease of communication will not save us

Superbloom: How Technologies of Connection Tear Us Apartby Nicholas Carr

Burned

“The White Heart of God” by Jack Gilbert

Poems read aloud, beautifully

Paige Ledom

Out of the ordinary

The Brahmin and His Imaginary Friend

How a classic paean to the honest virtues of a Maine fisherman obscured several ugly truths

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

Faith’s pivotal role in the outcome of the Civil War

Righteous Strife: How Warring Religious Nationalists Forged Lincoln’s Unionby Richard Carwardine

“The Terrorist, He’s Watching” by Wislawa Szymborska

Poems read aloud, beautifully

Keepers of the Old Ways

Eliot Stein on the people keeping cultural traditions alive

Above the River of Your Longing

Two new prompts

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