Napoleon didn’t like sitting for portraits, and yet artists and mass market prints helped cement his legendary...
Day: August 12, 2019
Most of these Americans left behind little evidence explaining why they took up arms for the French...
The author, Burt Neuborne, is one of America’s top civil liberties lawyers, and questions whether federal government...
Lincoln has generally been absent as a model in European social and public life, rarely emphasized as...
The exponential growth of his popularity built into a memorial crescendo. Lincoln’s ascension to the status of...
Every right-wing authoritarian movement has one thing in common: a brutal clampdown on any persons or groups...
Through the trauma of war, and by learning from his mistakes, the first president gained empathy and...
The first president was indispensable to our early republic, precisely because he didn’t see himself as indispensable....