I do not think that there can ever be enough books about anything; and I say that knowing that some of them are going to be about Pilates.
Behind every bad law, a deep fear.
Before the verb to electrocute came to define death by electricity, Edison advocated that the verb be named for his nemesis, that a person who had been electrocuted would have been westinghoused inste...
Along with voting, jury duty, and paying taxes, goofing off is one of the central obligations of American citizenship.
Joie de vivre.
Wainwright prayed to the graven image of Lafayette, since neither the president nor Congress seemed to be listening. We, the women of the United States, she told the bronze Lafayette, denied the liber...
Oh, if only that was the last time in America that the extreme left and extreme right broke down and made a mess of things, leaving everyone in the center to suffer.
I have a policy about that word soul. It is strictly prohibited except in cases of converstations having to do with okra recipes or Marvin Gaye.
For the better part of the 1990s, it seemed like the only Americans who publicly described themselves as patriots were scary militia types hiding out in the backwoods of Michigan and Montana, cleaning...
But the first thing a present-day visitor notices is that it's exceedingly gay. A life-size, fully dressed Garfield stands on top of a giant shaft.
But I have never had the privilege of unhappiness in Happy Valley. California is about the good life. So a bad life there seems so much worse than a bad life anywhere else. Quality is an obsession the...
That August an ominous and unprecedented British armada of 450 ships and boats carrying forty-five thousand British soldiers and sailors, as well as the rented Germanic troops known as the Hessians (o...
To me, the highlight of the event is watching a reenactor in a long striped dress sitting alone on a blanket, winding yarn. Absorbed in the task of wrapping strands of wool around her hand, she never...
That's what we Americans do when we find a place that's really special. We go there and act exactly like ourselves. And we are a bunch of fun-loving dopes.
She is either male property (Mrs.), wannabe male property (Miss), or man-hating harpy (Ms.).
Lafayette lifted his glass at one reception to toast ‘the perpetual union of the United States,’ adding, ‘it has always saved us in time of storm; one day it will save the world.’ Whether
In other words, after Winthrop has acquired all his butter firkins, food stirrers, and beer along with six dozen candles, twenty thousand biscuits, and twenty-nine sides of beef, he goes through the B...
In The Bloudy Tenent, Williams points out that Constantine did more to hurt Christ Jesus than the raging fury of the most bloody Neroes. at least under the Christian persecutor Nero, who was rumored t...
Americans’ fatal tendency of disunion.
The groundswell of outrage over the invasion of Iraq often cited the preemptive war as a betrayal of American ideals. The subtext of the dissent was: 'This is not who we are.' But not if you were stan...