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Just the other day, I was in my neighborhood Starbucks, waiting for the post office to open. I was enjoying a chocolatey cafe mocha when it occurred t...more

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I do not think that there can ever be enough books about anything; and I say that knowing that some of them are going to be about Pilates. The more kn...more

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But I can no longer ready any faith's Napoleonic saber rattling without picturing smoking rubble on cable news. I guess if I had to pick a spiritual f...more

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That year, a middle-aged acquaintance asked me what my favorite book was and I said "On the Road." He smiled, said, "That was my favorite book at sixt...more

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The thing that drew me to Lafayette as a subject - that he was that rare object of agreement in the ironically named United States - kept me coming ba...more

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Robert Todd Lincoln, a.k.a. Jinxy McDeath.

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The whole reason I wanted to take Owen to Disney World is that I fear that someday he's going to look through his childhood photo album and wonder why...more

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The whole reason I wanted to take Owen to Disney World is that I fear that someday he's going to look through his childhood photo album and wonder why...more

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History is one war after another with a bunch of murders and natural disasters in between.

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In the United States, there was no simpler, more agreeable time.

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Wainwright prayed to the graven image of Lafayette, since neither the president nor Congress seemed to be listening. “We, the women of the United Stat...more

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You know your country has a checkered past when you find yourself sitting around pondering the humanitarian upside of sticking with the British Empire...more

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The more history I learn, the more the world fills up with stories.

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The groundswell of outrage over the invasion of Iraq often cited the preemptive war as a betrayal of American ideals. The subtext of the dissent was: ...more

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By journey's end the brides were much better acquainted with their grooms and more or less pleased with the matches. Sybil Bingham wrote in her diary,...more