Dos Passos’s epic trilogy still indelibly captures the United States in a moment of centrifugal chaos
Author: Murray Browne
Drew Gilpin Faust’s celebrated 2008 study of Civil War trauma mirrors the ever widening scope of our contemporary tragedy.
The pandemic might have pointed the way to a less car-centric future, Murray Browne argues, but the emotional attachment to cars remains.
Writer Murray Browne looks back at Pynchon’s novel, once heralded by critics as “bonecrushingly dense,” in light of the age of Qanon.
Alistair Horne’s book reminds us that political violence thrives on the exclusion of moderates — to everyone’s detriment.
Even though I pride myself on being an American history buff, my knowledge of the Korean War had […]
My interest in Vietnam stems from various sources. I grew up watching the Vietnam War in my living […]