Why Are There No More Lincolns?
Glen LaFantasie wonders why we don’t have leaders like Lincoln anymore.
Colonel Oates to Ian Fleming in Less Than Six Degrees
From the Civil War to James Bond.
Biography From the Bottom Up: Part Three
Biography From the Bottom Up, part three.
Biography From the Bottom Up: Part Two
Part two of Biography From the Bottom
Biography From the Bottom Up: Part One
Part one of three, Biography From the Bottom Up.
Authors Don’t Own Their Books
By Glenn LaFantasie Authors prepare themselves for negative reviews of their books, but when critics have bad things to say about one’s writing there is no girding of the loins that really seems to work. An unfavorable review hurts, no matter what authors say to the contrary. Some writers, though, dismiss critics and criticism more […]
Our Distant Civil War
We too often forget that the generation that fought the Civil War lived in a world very different from our own. In our attempt to personalize the past, which all too often leads us into a romanticization of that past, we see the elements of human experience that unite us with the Civil War generation—how they, as individuals, loved and lost, laughed and cried, lived and died—but we tend, in the process, to overlook how these same people spent their lifetimes in a world that, upon closer inspection, seems like an alien planet.
Hearing History’s Requiem
By Glenn W. LaFantasie Near the High Water Mark on Cemetery Ridge at Gettysburg, a massive white building shaped like a drum sits flat on the eastern slope of the ridge, obscured partially by a grove of fruit trees. Almost exactly in the center of the lines that Major General George Gordon Meade’s Army of […]