War is waged by men; not by beasts or by gods. It is a peculiarly human activity. To call it a crime against mankind is to miss at least half its significance; it is also the punishment of a crime. — Frederic Manning Clarence B. Wolfe... Read More

In the West many scientists and theologians have been talking to each other trying to reach some rapprochement for about forty years. Some scientists even declare that while they are devout Christians their faith does not interfere with... Read More

In 1918 the czar of Russia his wife and their five children were gunned down in a basement room of an old country estate where they were being held in exile. Yet even today the exact details of the murders and the events leading up to... Read More

“God and country are an unbeatable team. They break all records for oppression and bloodshed.“ — Luis Buñuel This world can no longer afford to ignore the results of oppression and xenophobia. What is the extent of racism classism... Read More

It’s inevitable that a Civil War premise conjures Margaret Mitchell’s Gone With The Wind and in its scope and length Frelow’s novel is certainly of the same vein. A longtime educator Frelow’s second book about the period not only... Read More

Mind Menders. Why does it matter that Freud went to Putnam’s camp in 1909 during his only visit to the U.S.? “History offers any number of poignant, unlikely conjunctions of person and place” but perhaps none more odd and... Read More

“A brainless worm.” That’s what poor Markus Simonsen’s classmates call him, when they aren’t calling him Wormster or laughing at him because his father is the only parent to telephone during the sixth-grade camping trip. Markus... Read More

In "Devotion", Jefferson Davis’s youngest daughter Varina Anne (“Winnie”) Davis writes in a private journal about the unsolicited public attention she receives in the aftermath of the civil war, “I was learning to mentally... Read More