An Historian-To-Be Looks At The Kutler Controversy

Jeremy Young, a doctoral student in history at Indiana University and the founder of progressivehistorians.com, offers this observation after reporting the rejection by the American Historical Review of Peter D. Klingman’s paper about Stanley I. Kutler’s...

37 & 16

On The Caucus blog in today’s New York Times, political reporter Katharine Q. Seelye has an interesting post about President Obama’s intense feeling of connection with Abraham Lincoln and the ways in which he is expressing it publicly. The piece begins...

When The Going Gets Weird On The Late Show

Joaquin Phoenix’s appearance on last night’s Late Show is being widely deconstructed on the internet and the radio.  It’s true that he hasn’t hitherto been known as a pillar of dependability or stability —his past history and his recent...

2.12.09

  Today, of course, is Abraham Lincoln’s 200th birthday.    This portrait, by George P. A. Healy, was one of the fifteen painted of the sixteenth President by the most popular portraitist of the day.  It was painted in 1887, twenty-two years after...

Taylor Leaving as Nixon Foundation Executive Director

John H. Taylor, President Nixon’s former chief of staff and executive director of the Richard Nixon Library & Birthplace Foundation since 1990, is leaving his Foundation position on Feb. 15 to accept the call of the Episcopal Bishop of Los Angeles, J. Jon...