Dr. Boylston, Boston’s First First Responder
The twin explosions that rocked the finish line of the Boston Marathon took place on one of Boston’s busiest thoroughfares:...
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Why We Never Take the Deficit Seriously
With passage of the Fiscal Cliff legislation in the House of Representatives, the predictable grumbling from self-declared...
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An Historic Victory for Social Liberalism
In 1966, the wave of liberal optimism over the civil rights movement and the Great Society began to dissipate. Cities in the North...
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Latent Partisans, or Why the Party ID Sample ̶...
By now the Republican litany of complaints against pollsters has become a chorus of desperation. The old adage holds true – if...
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Bill Clinton as the Anti-Zell Miller
The effectiveness of Bill Clinton’s speech last night was revealed in a response by CNN analyst and long time top Republican...
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Michelle Obama’s Values Gambit
“…as president, you can get all kinds of advice from all kinds of people. But at the end of the day, when it comes time...
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Randomness and Human Events: Reflecting on Aurora
I teach a Modern Western Civilization course a few times every year at my small liberal arts college in Tennessee and have been doing...
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The Civil War Border States and the Purple States ...
Nowhere was the Civil War more hotly contested – militarily, culturally and politically – than the northernmost tier of...
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Civil War thoughts on Andrew Johnson
When Tennessee’s capital was occupied by Union troops in late February 1862, President Lincoln appointed Andrew Johnson as the...
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The Civil War Sesquicentennial – No Surrende...
As a historian of the 19th century United States, with a focus primarily on the Civil War era in the Upper and Border South,...
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