This post is an essay by one of my favorite historians, Gordon Wood, who published it few days ago in the Wall Street Journal. Here's a link to the original. In anticipation of the upcoming 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, he argues that the US is a distinctive in being a nation build on … Continue reading Gordon Wood — America Is a Creedal Nation
This post is a piece by Matt Yglesias that raises an interesting question. Maybe the Habsburg's Austro-Hungarian empire was not just one of the dead-on-its-feet empires -- along with the Ottoman and Russian empires -- that were finally put of its misery by World War I. His argument is two-fold. In part he's saying that … Continue reading Matt Yglegias — The Habsburgs Were on to Something
David Labaree on Schooling, History, and Writing 