![]() He is the Chamberlain Fellow at Hamilton College as well as a New America Fellow. Army for thirty-six years, retiring as a brigadier general in 2020. Ty Seidule is Professor Emeritus of History at West Point where he taught for two decades. Subscribe: Google Podcasts | Android | RSS I grew up in Northern Virginia in an outpost of Southern patrimony, in a way, believing that Lee was a great southern gentleman ![]() Their discussion ranges from his childhood in the south to his time at West Point as the Head of the Department of History, and what he’s been doing since his retirement as a brigadier general in 2020. ![]() Lee and Me is drawing both praise and anger. His 2015 video on Prager University, “ Was the Civil War About Slavery?” has been viewed over 34 million times. Lee and the Confederate cause in the Army, specifically at the United States Military Academy. ![]() ![]() Seidule, a prominent figure in the conversation about extremism, has long fought against the veneration of Robert E. That same afternoon our Editor-In Chief, Jacqueline Whitt sat down with Ty Seidule in the virtual studio to record this episode. On 5 February, 2021, newly-confirmed Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin directed military leaders to lead a one-day stand-down within the next 60 days to address extremism within the nation’s armed forces. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Hooke designed a regimented grid-iron plan, inspired by the cities of the ancient world, while Evelyn and Wren imagined a city of piazzas, with St Paul’s Cathedral and the Royal Exchange at its heart. The most famous of these came from Royal Society members John Evelyn, Christopher Wren and Robert Hooke. The Ashes of London Written by Andrew Taylor Douglas Kemp The Great Fire rages in London. This arc begins with a reexamination of the effects of coal on the design of the domestic fireplace, where the greatest part of Londons fossil fuel was first. With the embers still burning, London's intellectuals finalised their plans for the city. Steeped in mathematical knowledge and the writings of the ancients, like Roman architect Vitruvius, they imagined a spacious, well planned city to rival the splendour of ancient Rome. 9,153 Ratings 1,000 Reviews published 2016 18 editions From the No.1 best-selling author of The American Want to Read Rate it: Book 2 The Fire Court by Andrew Taylor 4.01 3,248 Ratings 267 Reviews published 2018 1 edition From No. The fire provided a rare chance to create a modern capital. They believed London’s medieval structure with timber fronted buildings, network of alleyways and open sewers no longer reflected the ideals of the age. ![]() ![]() The fire broke out during a time of great upheaval in Britain, with old certainties shaken by the English Civil War.Ī new intellectual elite was emerging, made up of men keen to share ideas and scientific discoveries. ![]() ![]() ![]() The original, which is on display at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, was described by one newspaper in 1851 as "the grandest, most majestic, and most effective painting ever exhibited in America." side of the river, you can view a replica of the famous 1851 painting by German artist Emanuel Leutze, Washington Crossing the Delaware. Although not entirely accurate in its depiction (for example, the ice more closely resembles what one would observe on the Rhine River in Germany, not the Delaware), it remains one of our nation’s most recognized paintings. ![]() Washington Crossing Historic Park Visitor's CenterĪt the visitor’s center on the Pa. ![]() Learn more about the annual Washington Crossing Reenactment.The spot where General Washington led his army across the Delaware River in pursuit of freedom is commemorated every Christmas Day during a mid-day reenactment. It was a turning point in the Revolutionary War. George Washington and his Continental Army of 2,400 heroes crossed the Delaware River’s ice-choked waters on Christmas night, 1776, ambushing roughly 1,400 Hessian troops in and around Trenton, N.J.Washington's troops faced a howling nor’easter with freezing rain, snow, strong winds and temperatures ranging from 29 to 33 degrees.Īlso present at the crossing was another future president, James Monroe. "George Washington Crossing the Delaware" painting. ![]() Photo of Reenactment with added effect of Leutze's ![]() ![]() ![]() I want to repurpose the tiny apron to tie her hands together so she can’t try and stop me from giving her a dozen more. I haven’t even seen her in it yet and I want to rip that fucking dress to shreds and use the pieces to smother her screams from her tenth orgasm. ![]() Even a little sexy chasing/hunting through that spooky hedge maze. Ultimate praise kink with gentle dom encouragement, all just so well done. The MMC got his kicks out of pranking/scaring the FMC as they were growing up, but now that she's single he's done waiting around. Best friend's older brother is a pleasure dom (yep, take a moment to let that sink in and get excited). This one was utterly delightful (but honestly they all are). ![]() Halloween-ish themed, a murder mystery party with the best friend's coworkers turns into a sexy romp through a mansion and a spooky hedge maze The books in this series are all dual POV, CR, M/F, and standalones, so I'm listing them in relevant seasonal order: I can't even wait for Thirsty Thursday to roll around to post my tribute to this series!Īre you looking for holiday themed contemporary romance, with a delicious amount of smut, fun and consensual kinks (including detailed aftercare scenes!), all mixed with just the right amount of world building and emotional connection to make these novellas ✨shine✨? Look no further! ![]() I just finished the fourth book in Lee Jacquot's Holinights series, Hollow's Grove and I have melted into a puddle on the floor. ![]() ![]() But even though diplomats drew a line dividing a republican nation from a monarchical one, lines on paper mattered little to people on the ground in places like Detroit and Montreal where Americans, Canadians, and native peoples had an incentive to move goods and people freely across the new border. border with Mexico gets all the attention, but in the eighteenth century it was the northern border with Canada that mattered the most. ![]() You can see a digital copy of the Mitchell Map here. They used maps like John Mitchell’s 1755 work A Map of the British and French Dominions in North America to figure out what separated the United States from what remained of British America in Canada. As part of the treaty negotiations, American and British diplomats had to determine the new nation’s borders. ![]() ![]() In 1783, the United States and Great Britain signed the Treaty of Paris, which confirmed American independence. ![]() ![]() Is it an ancient find-or a more contemporary mystery? Then an elderly woman is fatally shot, and Jimmy Perez is called in. When a young archaeologist discovers a set of human remains, the locals are intrigued. The next day he’s found dead, and Jimmy must follow the winding trail the stranger has left behind to its conclusion. The launch of an exhibition at The Herring House art gallery is disturbed by a stranger who bursts into tears then claims not to remember who he is or where he comes from. When the body of a murdered girl is discovered, suspicion falls on Magnus, and Inspector Jimmy Perez enters an investigative maze that leads deeper into the past of the Shetland Islands than anyone wants to go. Winner of the coveted Duncan Lawrie Dagger Award, Raven Black begins on New Year’s Eve with lonely outcast Magnus Tait. Here together for the first time in a fantastic low-priced eBook bundle are the first four Shetland Island mysteries: ![]() ![]() Set in the most northerly community in the UK, the islands have a stark beauty that provides the backdrop for Jimmy’s quietly intense cases. CWA Diamond Dagger winner Ann Cleeves’s Shetland Island series has long been beloved both by fans who have been intrigued by Detective Inspector Jimmy Perez from the very first page, and converts drawn in by the brilliant BBC series Shetland. ![]() ![]() Sylvia Beach Whitman still runs Shakespeare and Company, overlooking Notre Dame cathedral, six years after her father passed away. ![]() ![]() George Whitman, a friend of Sylvia Beach, who opened his own bookshop in 1951, La Mistral, in Rue de la Bucherie, renamed it Shakespeare and Company in her honor (1964). When Whitman’s only child was born in 1981, he named her Sylvia Beach Whitman. Hemingway wrote, “No-one that I ever knew was nicer to me.” In Hemingway’s A Moveable Feast, where many of his erstwhile Parisian compatriots were subjected to often exorable criticisms, Sylvia Beach remained unscathed. ![]() ![]() ![]() The novel received high critical acclaim, winning the Follett Award and being named the sole Newbery honor book of 1965 by the American Library Association. Hunt's first novel, Across Five Aprils, was published when she was fifty-seven, after she had worked many years at her writing and accumulated many rejection slips. ![]() In her later years, she retired and moved to Florida. For many years, Hunt taught French and English in Illinois public schools she taught psychology briefly at the University of South Dakota. Her grandfather told many stories which later influenced her writing. ![]() After her father died when she was seven, Hunt lived with her grandparents for five years. Irene Hunt grew up on the farm in southern Illinois that provided the setting for her Civil War novel, Across Five Aprils (1964). Born, Pontiac, Illinois died August 1979ĭaughter of Franklin P. ![]() ![]() ![]() She's soon proven right when Ronnie is accused of murder, and secrets and rumors surrounding her shady cousin and those involved with the winery start piling up. Tita Rosie is thrilled with the return of her prodigal son, but Lila knows that wherever Ronnie goes, trouble follows. But her cousin Ronnie is back in town after ghosting the family fifteen years ago, claiming that his recent purchase of a local winery shows that he's back on his feet and ready to give back to the Shady Palms community. And yes, she's taken the first step in a new romance with her good friend, Jae Park. Sure, her new business, The Brew-ha Cafe, is looking to turn a profit in its first year. It's Christmastime in Shady Palms, but things are far from jolly for Lila Macapagal. About the Book "When her long lost cousin comes back to town just in time for the holidays, Lila Macapagal knows that big trouble can't be far behind in this new mystery by Mia P. ![]() ![]() ![]() Writers who stress the role of debt in the story tend to see 1971 as the cusp. ![]() At any rate, a new kind of socioeconomic arrangement – the Marxian economists Gérard Duménil and Dominique Lévy propose the name ‘neoliberalism under US hegemony’ – emerged from the turmoil of the 1970s, and is now faltering. Politically, the neoliberal turn began later, perhaps with Thatcher’s election in 1979. Intellectually, Milton Friedman’s Nobel Prize of 1976 signalled the shift from Keynesianism to monetarism thereafter orthodox economics was more concerned with low inflation than full employment. In terms of overall growth rates, it was with the recession of 1973-74 that the surge after the Second World War gave way to deceleration across the wealthy world. ![]() The precise boundary between the postwar eras gets drawn differently depending on which feature of the terrain is emphasised. The end of the second appears to have been announced by the crisis – at first a ‘financial’ crisis, now often a ‘debt’ crisis – that broke out in 2008. The first extends from the late 1940s into the 1970s. Most analysts divide postwar capitalism into two periods. ![]() |