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A Disease in the Public Mind
By the time John Brown hung from the gallows for his crimes at Harper's Ferry, Northern abolitionists had made him a "holy martyr" in their campaign against Southern slave owners. …
The Great Divide
A conflict between George Washington and Thomas Jefferson? Most Americans are unaware of this historical reality. History tends to cast the early years of America in a glow of …
The Strategy of Victory
Led by the Continental Congress, the Americans almost lost their war for independence because their military thinking was badly muddled. The embryo nation narrowly escaped from the …
A Disease in the Public Mind
In this riveting, character-driven history, one of our most respected historians traces the diseases in the public mind- the distortions of reality- that destroyed George …
The Great Divide
In the months after her husband's death, Martha Washington told several friends that the two worst days of her life were the day George died- and the day Thomas Jefferson came to …