The American Novel: Summer by Edith Wharton
I know the mountain. I lived there for two years. We called it Onion Creek, and it’s not much of a mountain, as mountain goes—more of a foothill—but it was an isolated, rural land populated […]
I know the mountain. I lived there for two years. We called it Onion Creek, and it’s not much of a mountain, as mountain goes—more of a foothill—but it was an isolated, rural land populated […]
In 1274 BCE, the Egyptian and Hittite Empires met for battle at Kadesh. Less than a hundred years later, around 1190, unknown invaders captured and destroyed the Hittite capital of Hattusa. Between these two events, […]
On January 15, 1942, a few weeks after the attack on Pearl Harbor, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt wrote: I honestly feel that it would be best for the country to keep baseball going. There will […]