In a 2012 opinion piece bemoaning the state of the US Senate, Washington Post columnist Dana Milbank cited a "leading theory: There are no giants in the chamber today." Among the respected members who once walked the Senate floor, admired for their expertise and with a stature that went beyond party, Milbank counted Sam Nunn (D-GA). Nunn served ......
How an Epic Conservation Victory Became a Tipping Point for Environmental Policy Action
The Point Reyes National Seashore (PRNS) is not only a stunning piece of land-the first large national park created from all private lands and the first large park adjacent a large metropolitan center-but the fight to save this fragile ecosystem in the 1960s was a key turning point in the environmental movement and helped transform the political ......
How an Epic Conservation Victory Became a Tipping Point for Environmental Policy Action
The Point Reyes National Seashore (PRNS) is not only a stunning piece of land-the first large national park created from all private lands and the first large park adjacent a large metropolitan center-but the fight to save this fragile ecosystem in the 1960s was a key turning point in the environmental movement and helped transform the political ......
The Divergent Educations of the Constitutional Framers
"Whatever Principles are imbibed at College will run thro' a Man's whole future Conduct."---William Livingston, signer of the Constitution Schools for Statesmen explores the fifty-five individual Framers of the Constitution in close detail and argues that their different educations help explain their divergent positions at the 1787 Constitutional ......
Stories and Spycraft from the International Spy Museum
Intelligence history comes alive in this delightful collection of stories and photographs. Secrets on Display takes readers on a tour of the thrilling, real-life history of intelligence and espionage from around the world. With tales of spies, codebreakers, moles, terrorist-hunters, spy chiefs, propagandists, and secret agents, these new ......
An American Officer's Story of World War I Combat and Captivity
Serpents of War, the memoir of Pennsylvanian Major Harry Dravo Parkin, is a rare account of World War I as seen from the perspective of a battalion commander. As a mid-level officer responsible for the lives and welfare of over a thousand men, Parkin conveys the stress of command at a time when one innocent blunder could cost an officer his combat ......
The 2018 midterm elections were both record-breaking and pathbreaking. Americans elected four women to the Senate along with twenty-four women to the House. At the same time, nearly two hundred veterans were on ballots across the country, including a dozen women with military service experience, three of whom won their races. Two years later, ......
American ideals-liberty, equality, democracy, national unity-are bandied about by liberal politicians as a package deal, inseparably intertwined. But the words often flow together better as rhetoric than they mold together in theory. But, as Herbert Croly and his turn-of-the-century contemporaries found, jelling these appealing yet often ......
Soldiers Who Refused to Fight in the American Civil War
From renowned Civil War historian Earl J. Hess comes a study of Union and Confederate soldiers as never seen before. Shattered Courage examines the experience of the men who refused to fight on the day of battle. When Abraham Lincoln took the oath of presidential office on March 4, 1865, he urged the country to care for those "who shall have ......
