Posts Tagged ‘history’
City of Scholarly Love
My Kingdom for a Horse
Homo sapiens seeks equine companionship for work and pleasure
Read MoreHow to Pay for What We Need
Congress could create money, as it did during the Civil War, funding public projects that shock the economy back to life
Read MoreDubya and Me
Over the course of a quarter-century, a journalist witnessed the transformation of George W. Bush
Read MoreLBJ’s Wild Ride
Hanging on for dear life during the 1960 campaign
Read MoreThe Worst of Times
A Soviet city barely survives
Read MoreThe Inside Track
How those dim-witted robber barons built the railroads
Read MoreDeep Trouble
How a natural disaster barreled into a historical one
Read MoreIn the Orbit of Copernicus
A discovery of the great astronomer’s bones, and their reburial in Poland
Read MoreThe Forgotten Churchill
The man who stared down Hitler also helped create the modern welfare state
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