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Churchill

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Churchill's War Cabinet

Suppose you woke up one morning and heard on the radio or television that the Government now has “full power to control ...

Churchill and the Islamic World

Boris Johnson, the Mayor of London, has hailed this book as “timely”. The author is Dr. Warren Dockter, Research Fellow...

Churchill: Imperial Melodrama

Who was the most melodramatic actor of the 20th century. Bela Lugosi? Vincent Price? Winston Churchill? Winston Churchi...

Churchill's Desert War

Was the Desert War against Germany and Italy a sideshow to main events in Europe? Not in the estimation of author Jonath...

Churchill Roars

The World War II speeches of Winston Churchill are legendary. In an attempt to ferret out the true impact of these speec...

Churchill and Seapower

“Historians today are probably further than ever from a consensus on Churchill’s record as the custodian of British sea ...

Dinner with Churchill

Just when you thought there were no aspects of Churchill’s long life that had not received a book-length treatment, alon...

Churchill: Young Titan

It was with some trepidation that I began yet another biography of Winston Churchill. Book shelves around the world lite...

Churchill in Art and Words

Three recent books have explored various aspects of the literary and artistic life of Winston Churchill. Together they p...

Churchill and the Prisons

When Winston Churchill was appointed Home Secretary in 1910, he became the British leader in charge of the prison system...

Road Trip

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Gay Camping and RVing

Every summer while growing up my mother packed us up, all ten of us, and off we went. My earliest recollections of trave...

Road Trip Part 7 - Vicksburg

Leaving Little Rock is easy. There is nothing to hold us especially the unceasing rain. Our true journey starts as we ta...

Road Trip Part 6 - Little Rock

At PrideFest in Holiday Park in March last year, while staffing the Stonewall National Museum & Archive booth, we me...

Road Trip - Part 5: Memphis

Google Maps said getting from Birmingham to Memphis was a direct route on I-22. It didn’t mention that I-22 begins at th...

Road Trip - Part 4

On the road again, this time heading southwest to Birmingham, AL. Avoiding interstate highways we make a beeline from t...

Road Trip - Part 3

We arrive in Blue Ridge after a wonderful week simply getting there. Honestly, I lingered, slowed down, enjoyed every da...

Road Trip Part 2

Oz, the gay campground in central Georgia just east of I-75 near Unidilla is a friendly place. The current owners took i...

Beginning The Adventure – Deep South Part …

There comes a time in life, when you walk away from all the drama and people who create it. You surround yourself with p...

SAVANNAH’s TREASURE: Old Fort Jackson

Georgia’s oldest standing brick fort is not only a National Historic Landmark but Savannah’s most treasured possession. ...

Milton

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The Value of Milton

John Milton himself wrote “Let me not be useless, whatever remains for me in this life.” While his major work, Paradise ...

Paradise Lost and Cosmology

Most of the scholarly analysis of science and astronomy in Paradise Lost, for the past three centuries, has been written...

Milton’s Creation

As Eric Song shows in this provocative book, Milton’s creation spanned not just the ordered universe but chaos as well. ...

Milton: An Aristocracy of Virtue

What constitutes “the people”? That is the basic question posed in this book by Paul Hammond, Professor at the Universit...

Milton’s Reputation

Where does Milton stand in English literature? According to Samuel Taylor Coleridge in 1810, on one of the two “Golden T...

Exploring Time and Space: Milton and Ovid

Professor Maggie Kilgour of McGill University in Montreal says in the Preface that her book “traces the changing role of...

Revolution in Milton

John Milton’s Paradise Lost is one the greatest examples of English literature ever composed, and its astronomical allus...

Historical Milton

In the fourth recent book about Milton I am reviewing for the Sun News, author Thomas Fulton of Rutgers University looks...

Young Milton

John Milton lived to nearly 66 years of age, dying in 1674. His most famous work, Paradise Lost, was published from 1658...

Milton and the Incarnation

As I mentioned in my first review of four recent books about Milton (Milton and History, posted May 5, 2013), this book ...

Lincoln The Series

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Lincoln and the Press

Today Republicans are often vilified by Democrats for trying to stop a certain class of people from voting. Back in the ...

War and Peace: Grant & Lee

The great Civil War generals Ulysses S. Grant and Robert E. Lee were the focus of the annual Lincoln Symposium in Miami,...

Lincoln in 1864

Thirty years ago James McPherson launched the Golden Age of Civil War scholarship with his Pulitzer-Prize winning book B...

Lincoln Defiant

"Lincoln was a moral man but was not sentimental. He was particularly unsentimental about casualties because he had a re...

Lincoln and Stonewall Jackson

“I feel like Jane Fonda speaking to the Daughters of the American Revolution.” So said Professor James Robertson, Profes...

Lincoln was as Funny as Will Rogers

"To me, Lincoln is so many things," said Dr. Robert Watson in an exploration of Lincoln's legacy. "Abolitionist, politic...

Lincoln: The Art of Persuasion

Abraham Lincoln did not have a doctorate, but he did have "the highest possible degree in the art of persuasion." Robert...

Lincoln Stretched Powers of Presidency

In another of the fascinating seminar series being held at the Broward Public Library in Fort Laud...

Lincoln: His Face Defies Time

Abraham Lincoln's persona was the subject of a spirited presentation at the Broward Public Library by Dr. Robert Watson ...

Lincoln Would Be Appalled

A host of Abraham Lincoln scholars gave a packed audience at History Miami on January 22, 2012 a taste of what America's...

Theatre

The Measure of Courage: The Immigrant

The Immigrant was first performed in 1985 and has become a staple of theatre companies ever since. I... Read more

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Art Scene

Leonardo da Vinci in Texas

The inventive genius of Leonardo da Vinci is currently on display at the Texas Museum of Science. While he is best known as the painter of the Mona Li... Read more

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Celebrity

Christmas at LBJ's White House

President Johnson and his family did not usually celebrate Christmas at the White House, but his wif... Read more

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Gay Life

Gay Cruise in the Med

When you are on a 10-day gay cruise in the Mediterranean, seeing a human sea anemone in the ship's swimming pool is not unusual. Imagine seeing this o... Read more

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