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Despite my natural mistrust of any documentary where the heroes and villains are so clearly defined, I couldn’t deny the appeal of “The Unforeseen.” The documentary recounts the debate over Barton Springs, a spring-fed swimming hole in Austin, Tex. As...
She has a wicked sense of humor, our president, even in a work as heavy as “This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War.” In her first book published since taking the University’s helm, Drew G. Faust returns to...
Even Giuliani, the national front-runner - a title that normally means something in a G.O.P. race but this year is the equivalent of "honorary chairman" - is slumping in polls. Republicans have no experience with chaos like this, except in history books. "It is without a doubt," says G.O.P. strategist Ralph...
A list of early contributors to “The Atlantic Monthly” demonstrates the close ties between Harvard and the magazine at its founding in 1857. Writers for the first few issues include Lowell; Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., class of 1861, and Ralph Waldo Emerson, class of 1821...
In 1940, after two straight losses to Franklin D. Roosevelt, the Republicans turned to someone who was barely in their party. Utility executive Wendell Willkie had been a delegate to the 1924 Democratic Convention. But he criticized F.D.R.'s Tennessee Valley Authority as being a power grab by the Federal...