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In The Forgotten Presidents: Their Untold Constitutional Legacy , Michael J. Gerhardt, tries, not altogether successfully, to make people like Franklin Pierce and Calvin Coolidge interesting The following review has been posted on the Books page of the Read More...
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In Democracy of Sound: Music Piracy and the Remaking of American Copyright in the Twentieth Century , Alex Sayf Cummings traces churning tides of freedom in the business of distributing music The following review has been posted on the Books page of the Read More...
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The Horace Chronicles, #6 September 30 Dear Maya, Today Mr. Smith told a story. I recorded it on my phone (I've been doing this lately; he says it's OK). "So I want to tell you about two people," he said about halfway through class about the fights between Read More...
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The Horace Ch ron icles, #5 September 22 Dear Maya, For the past couple days we’d been learning about slavery. Mr. Smith had us read about stuff like the Triangular Trade. He explained how slavery was different in North America than it was in South America Read More...
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The Horace Chronicles, #4 September 15 Dear Maya, I paid a visit to Mr. Smith's office on Friday morning. We had a DBQ -- a Document-Based Question -- to write an essay about. All the documents (they were more like little pieces from bigger documents) Read More...
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The Horace C hronicles, #3 in which we see a t eacher make an opening move September 5 Dear Maya, The first day of school was really long, because it was really hot. By the end of first period I could feel the sweat trickle down the back of the new Beatles Read More...
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--> The Horace Chronicles, #2 in which we see two people trying to balance their books August 27 Dear Maya, When I got home after my last shift at the pool, I was surprised to find my dad sitting at the dining room table. He had his laptop open and a Read More...
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The Horace Chronicles, #1 August 2 0 Dear Maya, I guess the first time I remember thinking much about Mr. Smith was at the end of last summer when I ran into Sean Catalano at the pool. My shift at the front desk had just ended and I headed over to the Read More...
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In The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail -- But Some Don't , statistician extraordinaire Nate Silver argues for the value of calculation The following review has been posted on the Books page of the History News Network . This one that Read More...
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In How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia Mohsin Hamid captures the green light -- again. The following review has been posted on the Books page of the History News Network . How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia solidifies Mohsin Hamid's claim as a major Read More...
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Jim is observing Spring break in the less-than-tropical climes of Massachusetts (where beaches of books beckon). In recent weeks he's been listening to more new popular music than usual, in part because pop music has taken a turn in his (more melodic) Read More...
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In Lincoln's Tragic Pragmatism: Lincoln, Douglas and Moral Conflict , a historic debate becomes a living analogy I think of myself as an amateur Lincolnologist who tries to keep up on the latest literature in the field. But I really didn't want to read Read More...
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Benedict Arnold, great traitor The following is the second of two posts on loyalists in the American Revolution (the first "The Price of Loyalty," is below). Perhaps no one shows how difficult it was to choose sides in the American Revolution, and the Read More...
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The founding of the United States was an ordeal for those unsure of which side to choose The following is the first of two posts on loyalists in the American Revolution So: You happy about the way the American Revolution turned out? This probably strikes Read More...
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The following remarks were delivered at an assembly at my school last week which dealt with the word "***" and what place it has, if any, in common discourse. Though I’ve been known to use such terms for pedagogical purposes – usually to try and capture Read More...
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