Thursday, August 30, 2012
Belated Happy Birthday, Walter Scott
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I missed Walter Scott's birthday - August 15th, for those of you who want to send a card next year. If this had been 1871 instead of 201...
Thursday, May 24, 2012
On the New Orleans Times-Picayune
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Sad news out of New Orleans: last night, the New York Times reported that the Times-Picayune looks set to face severe cuts, including t...
Saturday, May 12, 2012
Kipling and America
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Kipling, at home in Vermont I've been reading some Kipling recently, for circuitous reasons (mainly Peter Bellamy ), and it's hi...
Wednesday, April 25, 2012
Reading the Fall of New Orleans
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William Waud, "Landing of Captain Bailey and Lieutenant Perkins on the Levee, New Orleans [. . .] to Demand the Surrender of the City...
Saturday, April 14, 2012
Grant and the Gamblers
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Reading William S. McFeely's biography of Ulysses S. Grant I was amused by the future president's encounter with a group of river...
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