Taking the briefest of breaks from my Lincoln reading, before taking on the newest full biography, A. Lincoln , by Ronald C. White Jr. (to b...

Back in 2000, Gerald J. Prokopowicz published All for the Regiment: The Army of the Ohio 1861 - 1862. Now that is exactly the kind of Civil...

Opening to an essay called "My Books," I find the following: "Sitting, last winter, among my books, and walled round with all...

A favorite I reread every year at this time, for obvious reasons, is Charles Lamb's classic essay "New Year's Eve." I...

William Lee Miller is my favorite living American historian. If you don't know him, you should. His book from 1998, Arguing About Slave...

Supper's done, and good it was too.  Just the two of us to eat it this year, so a quiet day, but a very pleasant one.  Each with his own...

Do you remember the American poet Phyllis McGinley?  No less a poet than W. H. Auden wrote a foreword to her collected poems.  She's go...

New feature! This weekend I found a copy of Farragan's Retreat at The Couth Buzzard. (We will miss you, Buzzard.) I've been looking...