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In honor of Presidents Day, we present the following excerpt from John Adams: A Live, in which John Ferling details John Adams’ first impressions of George Washington, and what ultimately led to Washington’s nomination for Commander-in-Chief of the Continental Army.
In this excerpt from her book, ‘Til Death or Distance Do Us Part, Frances Smith Foster discusses the desire for love and marriage within the African American slave community in the antebellum South.
Michael Kranish takes us behind the scenes.
Elvin Lim’s weekly column looks at Reagan and Sarah Palin.
Gordon Thompson on February 1965.
An excerpt from Ethics in Nursing.
An excerpt from Erotic City.
Elvin Lim looks at President Obama.
A short extract from James C. Whorton’s The Arsenic Century: How Victorian Britain was Poisoned at Home, Work, and Play.
The author of Empire of Liberty, Gordon S. Wood, explains how the story of Rip Van Winkle epitomizes the cultural shift in American life from British colony to independent nation just a generation after the Revolution
Author Raymond Arsenault sees his book turned into a film.
John A. Neuenschwander looks at defamation cases that involve professional responsibility.
An excerpt from Wild Men: Ishi and Kroeber in the Wilderness of Modern America.
Elvin Lim looks at compromises.
An excerpt from From Disgust to Humanity.
An original post from Gordon Thompson.