Some Wednesday Readings

“Battle of Jackson” Day – Chris Mackowski at Emerging Cicil War.

 

The end of “Anglo-Saxon”? – Samuel Rubinstein at The Critic Magazine. 

 

Things I Learned from Rural Living – Lara D’Entremont at Story Warren.

 

Climate Protestors Charged over Magna Carta Attack in London – Gareth Harris at The Art Newspaper.

 

Non-profits Are Making Billions Off the Border Crisis – Madeleine Rowley at The Free Press.

 

Guardians of the Nation’s Glory: The Civil War Memorials of Northwest Washington, D.C. – Kyle Hallowell at Emerging Civil War. 

 

Reading Shakespeare at Home with Teenagers – Joseph Woodard at The Imaginative Conservative.

Photograph: The Magna Carta, via Wikimedia. 

Some Wednesday Readings

Science and Poetry: William Blake and the Doctrine of Double Truth – Joseph Bottum at Poems Ancient and Modern. 

The Real War in the Mideast Comes into Focus – Matti Friedman at The Free Press.

 

The Inescapable Melancholy of Phone Boxes – Spitalfields Life.

 

The Venerable Bede – England’s First Great Historian – Dana Huntley at British Heritage.

 

An Oration on the Scholar’s Mission – Orestes Brownson at The Imaginative Conservative (speech first given in 1843 at Dartmouth College. 

 

Can the “Everyone is a Spy” Bill be Stopped? – Matt Taibbi at Racket News.

 

Among the missing, among the dead: Black poetry in America – William Logan at New Criterion.

 

Illustration: Orestes Brownson (1803-1872).

Some Wednesday Readings

A Song of Lament for Israel – poem by James Tweedie at Society of Classical Poets. 

Uses and Abuses of History – Joel Miller at Miller’s Book Review talks with historian Thomas Kidd. 

 

“A Brave and Gallant Officer”: Colonel Thomas M. Griffin in the 18^th Mississippi – Sarah Kay Bierle at Emerging Civil War. 

 

The Man from Porlock Poetry Challenge – Society of Classical Poets.

Photograph by Jared Craig via Unsplash. Used with permission.

Some Wednesday Readings

Off the beaten path at Antietam battlefield: The Upper Bridge – John Banks' Civil War Blog.

Book Review: “Shipwrecked: A True Civil War Story of Mutinies, Jailbreaks, Blockade-Running, and the Slave Trade” by Jonathan White – Neil Chatelain at Emerging Civil War.

The Worst Op-Ed in History? – Matt Taibbi at Racket News.