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… Dusk and Is Gone A few times in a life—any life— a moment comes, a decision comes, and then the essential thing … caught between soup bowl and mouth, and then the hand steadies. The soup does not know the decision. It cools. The … his sons. Where then is such a moment registered in the annals? Not in the dispassionate stars. Not in the house cat …
Poetry
… I stop writing and put down this pen. I once heard someone compare it to the sound of crickets in a field of wheat or, …
… binds South Africa to America. The records of the Virginia Company of London in October, 1621, read: “. . . And as at … of Gentlemen and Marriners that lately came home from the Indies in the Royall James had given a contribution of 70” … where the impact of social change is bringing about new viewpoints. The men who built the Native colleges reflect the …
… The Old South, Early and Late The Coming of the Civil War. By Avery Craven. Charles Scribner’s … contemporaries, enjoy riding hobbies. As Professor Craven points out, the North has written the history of our nation … as to “. . . whence these mighty dons derive their originals.” If Professor Wertenbaker wishes his conclusions to …
Essays
… events, aged specters signifying a time when wars, if bloodier but as tragic as any today, seemed to have defined purposes and goals, contemptible though they may have been. I have never … WWII veteran, though not of the Normandy landings), a D-Day commemoration at the Eisenhower Presidential Library in …
… the spring of 1986, professional historians and intellectuals in the Bundesrepublik have been engaged in a bitter … , about the status of its history. In some ways this should come as no surprise. Nineteenth-century Germany was the … German—and the white Southern— cases should be carefully studied by those who want to ground identity in group …