I don’t subscribe to the idea that the founders or …– Nathaniel Philbrick
I don’t subscribe to the idea that the founders or anyone else were somehow better than us and that we have to live up to
I don’t subscribe to the idea that the founders or anyone else were somehow better than us and that we have to live up to
What’s been largely forgotten is that Washington was highly passionate and aggressive, and it was only after losing Philadelphia to the British after a string
To my mind, an adventure is something a person willingly undertakes.
It is impossible to say when 37-year-old Benedict Arnold first met 18-year-old Peggy Shippen, but we do know that on September 25, 1778, he wrote
Instead of being a page-turner, ‘Moby-Dick’ is a repository of American history and culture and the essentials of Western literature. The book is so encyclopedic
I do work-related stuff on airplanes. Then, when I’m in the hotel room or just vegging out, I read for pleasure.
I consider myself a writer who happens to write about history, rather than a historian. I was an English major in college. What I’ve learned
The great lesson I get from ‘Moby-Dick’ is that when the times are bad, when there is great foreboding, there are still ways to go
The American Revolution as it actually unfolded was so troubling and strange that once the struggle was over, a generation did its best to remove
Writing can’t be too calculated. My best writing is when I set it aside, move on. It’s not when I’m crafting a sentence, thinking about
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