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… yet fruitful historical debate over the nature of slavery comes of age. It was just 21 years ago that Stanley Elkins … looks at slavery at the moment of its death; all other studies have examined it at its height. At slavery’s end, the … transformation also felt the shock of novelty. As Litwack points out, few Northerners had ever seen the South before …

… life—muscle on muscle on muscle, a LEGO stack of bodies—threw themselves into the water, dangled on wires, and … body—a parenthesis surrounded by bobbing exclamation points. Seven women formed a circle in the lower corner of … with a six-month-old baby at home—came in second, .2667 points behind the winning Russian team.  In both the …

… than thirty years for every newscast the newsreader has come on time, at the same time, to the same screen, and he’s … For more than thirty years for every newscast I have come on time, at the same time, to the same screen, and told … weather forecast doesn’t trouble me. Today the newsreader comes right on time, at the same time, to the same screen, …

… us of the powerful international effects of the war. As he points out, traditional accounts of British responses to … in their own country. Parlor Politics: In Which the Ladies of Washington Help Build a City and a Government , by … In Fact , by Thomas Mallon. Pantheon $26.95 The 45 brilliant essays on a variety of subjects, …

… uncles, cousins, sons of mine. There is a bunch of ladies in the parlor, And they’re deader than the men and just … Back and side are more than I Can bear to see before I die. For God’s sake, Missus, can’t I put him out? There’s no …