The Emancipation Proclamation, the law that freed the slaves in the United States, was signed in 1863, but the dastardly institution lived on in the South Pacific until the late 1880s, driven by displaced southern slave owners and U.S.... Read More

It was an unjust law that begged to be broken. The Fugitive Slave Law, passed in 1850, was an act of desperation on the part of Southern slave holders. They increasingly saw people, whom they considered their property, escaping to... Read More

“Nothing was your own except the few cubic centimeters inside your skull,” this introductory epigraph of "Speechless" is a quotation from Nineteen Eighty-four. What follows is Barry’s assertion that some of Orwell’s predictions... Read More

Sol Weiss is Chief of Divisions of the Family Practice at Encino-Tarzana Medical Center in Los Angeles. In his spare time he’s written three books. According to the author his first book Unlocking the Secret of Life explained the... Read More

In his 2002/2003 Frost Medal acceptance speech, Lawrence Ferlinghetti described three types of poetry, the last and most important being standing poetry, “the poetry of commitment, often great, often dreadful.” Sean Thomas Dougherty... Read More

“She had an unfinished commitment to keep, like a soldier who must leave his loved ones, pick up his rifle, and return to the battlefield where his buddies died,” Hansen writes. Kathleen O’Toole of Sinn Féin and the Irish... Read More

Contrary to the claims made by its subtitle and foreword, Karmel’s A Corner in the Marais is more an informal history of a Paris neighborhood than it is a memoir, per se. With the exception of the first chapter, which treats the... Read More