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… continues to fascinate. The old Athenian historian, who died before he could finish his one masterwork, was a … applied to him the phrase that damns in modern learned journals: “He writes well.” His subject was the so-called … the resolution with which they risked their lives. Orwin compares the speech with Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address, and …

… scale to make a difference. What he doesn’t acknowledge, as commenters point out, is that reducing the impact of food … before 1800. There he often entertained his Masonic Lodge pals with a highly flavored brandy toddy served up in a … Health Screening and Assessment Act, which would require combat veterans to undergo a series of one-on-one mental …

… swirled through the courthouse yard, around the stone soldier and the flag, and still I never saw them on the street. … whenever the film sputtered on the reel, when the music died and the lights came up, I swiveled my face up to where …

… late. It could be interpreted as a sign of the intellectual compromises any author must make who would reach a popular audience. It could be seen as evidence of the inevitable lag … of contingency —the recognition that at numerous critical points during the war things might have gone altogether …

… the height of Jim Crow, most newspapers in the region had become “sensitive to the dangers of racial conflict” and … public utterances, primarily in the form of his editorials, and his most intimate and heretofore unavailable … and rarely published for a regional or national audience (a 1927 article in the Virginia Quarterly Review …