Sitemap - 2025 - A User's Guide to History
Andrew Johnson: Mind the impressions
Abraham Lincoln: Timing is everything
James Buchanan: Be careful what you wish for
Franklin Pierce. The limits of conciliation
Millard Fillmore: Do the best you can
It doesn't take a conspiracy . . .
Zachary Taylor: Know your limitations
Cosmopolitanism and nationalism
Maxwell's demon and Schrodinger's cat
When life changes in an instant
John Tyler: Power is as power does
No (language) cops on the beat
William Henry Harrison: Don't die
How Trump outfoxed the founders
Martin Van Buren: The best laid plans
Is it bribery if you would have done it anyway?
Andrew Jackson: Check your emotions
John Quincy Adams: Know thyself
James Monroe: Hire well and heed your hire
James Madison: Times change, so should you
Peak capitalism, peak democracy
Do as Cromwell said, not as he did
When rumors of a foreign connection . . .
BQ 10: Did God create man? Or vice versa?
The hardest task for any political system
BQ 9: What drives the engine of history?
Limousine liberals, penthouse populists
Grant at Shiloh: Bend, then rebound
A Christian, a Muslim and a Jew walk into a bar . . .
The prehistory of the vaccine wars
What if . . . FDR had not had polio?
Electric Charlie and Engine Charlie
Socrates and the Fourteenth Amendment
What if . . . Pickett's charge had succeeded?
BQ 7: How do dictatorships work?
What if . . . TR’s wife hadn't died?
BQ 6: How does cooperation happen?
Colonel Washington starts a world war
BQ 4: Materialism or idealism?
The incredible vanishing Congress
A brief history of America Inc.
BQ 3: Why are some nations richer than others?
Does anyone care about democracy?
What do you call a corollary to a corollary?
BQ 2: Does human nature change over time?
What if . . . the Watergate burglars hadn't been such bunglers?
The teacher's friend: Donald Trump
Chesterton's fence and Panama's canal
Catalog of clever ideas: Prices
What if Truman hadn’t used the bomb?
Ballad of the Presidents: Reagan to Trump
Ballad of the Presidents: Kennedy to Carter
Ballad of the Presidents: Truman and Eisenhower
If Lincoln had let the secessionists go
Ballad of the Presidents: Harding to FDR
25 for 25. Declining birthrates (2010s)
Ballad of the Presidents: TR to Wilson
Ballad of the Presidents: Johnson to McKinley
Ballad of the Presidents: Lincoln
Ballad of the Presidents: Polk to Buchanan