Frankly Speaking

Okay, so the other night Michele and I watched the movie Shutter Island . Maybe you've seen it. If not, you probably saw the promos. The...

Cold War Fever So maybe you've guessed by now. These days I'm focused on the Cold War; especially that episode called the Cuban Miss...

Stern, Sheldon M. The Week the World Stood Still: Inside the Secret Cuban Missile Crisis . Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2005. ...

Kennedy, Robert F. Thirteen Days: A Memoir of the Cuban Missile Crisis . Introductions by Robert S. McNamara and Harold Macmillan. New York:...

McMillon, Lynn A. Restoration Roots: The Scottish Origins of the American Restoration Movement . Henderson, TN: Hester Publications, 1983. ...

Historians: I suppose they develop other maladies in order to compensate. But here's one problem they don't have: they don't li...

Gaddis, John Lewis. The Landscape of History: How Historians Map the Past. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002. What do historians do? ...

Went out for doves yesterday with my hunting mentor, David Jones. The water source that we were counting on to draw them in near sundown had...

About a month ago, I mentioned some plans for a project in history , something I wanted to complete before the end of this year. I didn'...

I was intrigued by a short article that appeared in the Wall Street Journal last month. The writer, Sarah Hinlicky Wilson, and her husband h...

I know, August is over and all month not a single post here at Frankly Speaking. I regret that. A long trip that made stops in Missouri, Ohi...

I'm taking my time reading through Familiar Lectures on the Pentateuch . A few highlights from numbers V and VI: In Lecture V, Alexander...