The Loneliness of Alexander the Great
Alexander the Great and the Loneliness of Power, by Ernst Badian, paints a picture of Alexander the Great that focuses not on his military...
Dan Brown’s The Lost Symbol and the Freemasons
Dan Brown's novel "The Lost Symbol" sends Robert Langdon on a quest to uncover the secrets of the Masons. The society of Freemasons has...
Philip Curtin: The Image of Africa
During the late 18th and 19th centuries, an African image developed in Europe based on the reports of explorers and the biases of the...
Eileen Welsome – The Plutonium Files
A remarkable book by Eileen Welsome on her investigation of U.S. radiation experiments on Americans during the Cold War period
In 1987, Eileen Welsome, a...
Xing Lu: Rhetoric in Ancient China, Fifth to Third Century B.C.
“Orientalism”, a paradigm described by Edward Said, has traditionally portrayed Eastern “people, ideas, and traditions” as lacking logic, rejecting argument, and neglecting to develop...
Stephen Howe – Anticolonialism in British Politics
Stephen Howe's 1993 book studies the anticolonial movement in Britain following World War I and highlights the successes and failures of the movement.
In Stephen...
Larry Gara’s Liberty Line, a Critical Assessment
Larry Gara's Liberty Line, published in 1961, is unquestionably the most influential book on the Underground Railroad of the last 50 years.
Liberty Line, Its...
Vikings in America by Graeme Davis
The author of 'Vikings in America' claims that around 1,000 years ago, Vikings crossed the Atlantic and settled in America.
Vikings in America is a...
Reeva Spector Simon – Iraq Between the Two World Wars
Reeva Simon's 2004 book, "Iraq Between the Two World Wars," shows how Nazi Germany gained influence in Iraq and helped cultivate a militarist society.
Reeva...
Deterioration of the Soul
An opinion of what slavery can do to a person using information from "The Narrative of the Life of Fredrick Douglass."
The slave owner, as...