Author, editor, and critic, RICHARD E. DANIELSON has been a lifelong student of the Civil War period. He is not surprised at the current public interest in that part of our history, but he wonders why it should arise at just this time.
In his second inaugural address, the 16th president had a message for a war-weary nation.
The smash Broadway musical by Lin-Manuel Miranda joins the growing movement encouraging Americans to take a closer look at the Founding Father’s life and legacy.
The new president borrowed from the bleak, fiery tone of his presidential campaign, but said his election represented the ascension of the people over politicians in Washington.
On Saturday, President Trump stood in front of the CIA’s Memorial Wall and gave a speech that said more about himself than those the wall commemorated, or the agency they served.
But which way the nation is headed remains a fiercely contested question.
Sorry, Dany: Jon Snow, it turns out, is just the kind of guy you’d want to have a beer—or at least a glass of Dornish wine—with.