(Part I - including a background to this series; Part II) Part the Third: Great Men & Whigs Universal History, the history of what man has accomplished in this world, is at bottom the History of the Great Men who have worked here. Thomas Carlyle The history of the...
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(I provided a background to this series in the first part which you can find here.) Part the Second: Ancient Historians For the ancient Greeks, the ultimate test of the educational system was the moral and political quality of the students that it produced. Henry...
This is not a topic I would have naturally written about, but SP made a comment that got me thinking…
In February, 1761, in a Boston courtroom, what should have been a fairly dry, administrative procedure became the foundation of one of Americans’ most prized rights.
