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Five Novels to Read about the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict

Five Novels to Read about the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict

There is no way to absorb or understand — and never, ever to accept — the Hamas attack on Israel last week and equally difficult to…
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The Death of Mahsa Amini and the Liberties We Cannot Take for Granted: Fighting for Justice in Iran…

The Death of Mahsa Amini and the Liberties We Cannot Take for Grant...

Every week, I receive dozens of messages from Iranians sharing their love of books and of reading with me. My book Tolstoy and the Purple…
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Loving Mysteries/Writing Histories

Loving Mysteries/Writing Histories

I love to read mysteries. I used to think of mysteries as the book equivalent of candy corn, my special treat which gave me a rush but not…
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The Founders Abhorred a Mob

The Founders Abhorred a Mob

The American Revolution was not brought about by a mob. In fact, in the eleven years leading up to the Declaration of Independence…
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Partisan Courts and the American Dream of Justice

Partisan Courts and the American Dream of Justice

The fight for independence in the 1770s was in large part motivated by the colonists’ disgust with how the King and Parliament sought to…
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Failures and Reparations: Slavery and the American Revolution

Failures and Reparations: Slavery and the American Revolution

Yes, the Founding Fathers caved on slavery. The concession to certain southern colonies on the issue of slavery was made primarily to keep…
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The American Revolutionaries Would Be Marching Now

The American Revolutionaries Would Be Marching Now

On February 22, 1770, Christopher Seider, an eleven-year old boy, was shot and killed on the streets of Boston by Ebenezer Richardson, a…
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The Tyranny of False Patriots and Lessons of Historical Ones

The Tyranny of False Patriots and Lessons of Historical Ones

Americans carrying assault weapons into public spaces, whether it is to intimidate or “to protect,” are not patriots. Armed to the teeth…
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American Rebels: Answering Questions Raised by Long-Ago Historians

American Rebels: Answering Questions Raised by Long-Ago Historians

Three years ago, while browsing through the collections of the Massachusetts Historical Society, I came across a captivating book by a man…
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Learning from the Emigrants

Learning from the Emigrants

My favorite work by the great writer W.G. Sebald is The Emigrants. In this enthralling novel, Sebald presents the stories of four men, all…
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Fighting Illness and the British in Colonial Boston

Fighting Illness and the British in Colonial Boston

In December of 1774, Edmund Quincy, merchant and justice of the peace in Boston, wrote to his daughter Katy (sister to Dorothy and future…
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