Archive - A User's Guide to History

Cannibals I have known

Melville in Eden

9 hrs ago •

Big thinking explained

Dominoes for dummies

Jul 4 •

Ulysses Grant: Consider the source

Leadership lessons of the presidents

Jul 3 •

The genius of Donald Trump

Jul 2 •

Texas, Panama . . . Greenland?

Austria, Ukraine . . . Taiwan?

Jul 1 •

June 2025

Andrew Johnson: Mind the impressions

Leadership lessons of the presidents

Jun 30 •

The Selfish Gene

Books that made us think

Jun 27 •

Abraham Lincoln: Timing is everything

Leadership lessons of the presidents

Jun 26 •

Enhanced free speech

A radical experiment

Jun 25 •

James Buchanan: Be careful what you wish for

Leadership lessons of the presidents

Jun 24 •

Bait and switch?

Presidents and wars

Jun 23 •

When TJ cried treason

And why presidents shouldn't

Jun 20 •

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