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Novel History

In 2001 Mark C. Carnes published a book entitled Novel History. Twenty historians responded to the questions: “How accurately do historical novels reflect the …

Flawed

We Americans have a tendency to view our heroes as perfect and our anti-heroes as totally depraved. Theologically we may agree to the inherent and …

Some of the criteria for political viability today do not compare favorably with those of earlier eras of American politics.  Candidates for high office today …

Around 1570 a young scholar by the name of Richard Hakluyt, while on a visit to his cousin, a lawyer in the Inns of …

In an age which confuses heroism with celebrity (actors and athletes are not heroes), and where the first definition in a recently published dictionary defined …

In 1644 a book was published in Scotland that would have gotten its author hanged for high treason in 1661 had he not died of …

From about 1660 to 1688, the English king tried to force Anglicanism on Scotland. The trouble with that of course, was that Scotland was Presbyterian …

I have just arrived home from a two week history tour of Scotland. I was one of the historians leading about 15 families on what …