Much of modern American political strategy, whether Democratic or Republican, depends on a disinterested public. Thomas Paine’s Common...
Day: September 24, 2019
Rail travel induces a reverie and intimacy among its diverse passengers. Amos, a one-legged Amish man, was...
Thoreau’s attitude toward the railroad was foremost one of ambivalence. What’s The Railroad To Me? What’s the...
After Alaric I, the Visigoths migrated to Spain where they established themselves and assimilated with the Romans....
The designation, Ostrogoth, taken to mean ‘Eastern Goth’, actually means ‘Goths glorified by the rising sun’. Introduction...
Greece, the ‘cradle of western civilization’, is home to a large number of spectacular sites from the...
The temple known as the Parthenon was built on the Acropolis of Athens between 447 and 438...