History Unfolding

I am in an informal online discussion with other people my age--college classmates of mine, in fact.  Thanks to our head alumnus, we began h...

 I had the great good fortune to grow up in an era of consensus.  The vast majority of Americans--including those who lacked equal rights, o...

   Travel made it impossible to get a post done last week. I hope to have one up in a day or two.

Readers have probably figured out that I love historical facts.  I have since I was about 8, and I often think of my brain as a vast, multi-...

 I can see now that the history of the 19th and 20th centuries from about 1860 until 1973 or so was the  history of powerful national states...