The Public "I"

  I am amazed that to the 7 million people living in the United States in 1810, the old adage that "The one thing they are not making m...

I can say with confidence that Meriwether Lewis (above) was, at 35, an American hero. He had been the official leader of the 6,000 mile long...

  I don't want to call the lady a liar, but I don't believe any of the stories Priscilla Grinder told about that night. But I simply...

I prefer to think of this inhuman event in human terms. In that regard, it was important not for when or why it was, because the “when” was ...