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The Joseph Smith Papers: Documents, Volume 7: September 1839-January 1841. Edited by Matthew C. Godfrey et al. (Salt Lake City: The Church Historians Press, 2018. Pp. xlv, 712, illustrations, bibliography, [...]

One of the most unusual baseball games in American League history took place at Shibe Park, Philadelphia, on May 18, 1912. Nominally a contest between the Philadelphia Athletics and the [...]

The Papers of Andrew Jackson. Volume 11: 1833. Edited by Daniel Feller, Laura Eve-Moss, and Thomas Coens. (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2020. Pp. xxxiv, 1007. $110.00, ISBN 978-1-62190-538-7.) The [...]

The Papers of James Madison: Presidential Series. Volume 11:1 May 1816-3 March 1817, with a Supplement, 1809-1815. Edited by J. C. A. Stagg and others. (Charlottesville and London: University of [...]

The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Retirement Series. Vol. 16: 1 June 1820 to 28 February 1821. Edited by J. Jefferson Looney et al. (Princeton, N.J., and Oxford, U.K.: Princeton University [...]

At least this was the impression of suffragist E. Cora Hind after canvassing members of the Manitoba Legislature in 1895 about their opinions of petitions from non-voters. (1) Hind's viewwas [...]

Many classical scholars have fretted about the disconnect between undergraduate instruction in Greco-Roman antiquity and the spirit of humanism. As classical studies have professionalized, an undergraduate education in the discipline has become decreasingly linked to the humanist goal of creating more ethical and introspective adults. This article suggests one means of rekindling humanism in the undergraduate Latin or Greek classroom:professors can assign a 'worldview' paper. Such a paper gives students the opportunity to use Greek and Latin literary works to contemplate a sound philosophy of life. Keywords: humanism, undergraduate education, research papers, general education, Sallust, Acouple of years ago, a colleague and I were grumbling in the hallway of the Classics Department about a recent innovation in our university's undergraduate curriculum. Called 'Scholarship in Practice,' [...]

The Papers of George Washington: Revolutionary War Series. Volume 25: 10 March-12 May 1780. Edited by William M. Ferraro. (Charlottesville and London: University of Virginia Press, 2017. Pp. xlviii, 656. [...]

The eighty-eighth Southern Historical Association conference, "Southern History Now!: Upheavals, Reckonings, and Reimaginings," will be held November 10-13, 2022, in Baltimore, Maryland, historically a crossroads between the North and the [...]

for I did but seal once to a thing and I was never mine own man since 2 Henry VI 4.2.76 I. In Shakespeare's 2 Henry VI, Jack Cade responds [...]

Imagine a library completely stripped of paper books. We're almost there: my local library is alive now with the chirp of keys, the click of mice, the whoosh of e-mailed [...]

Over the last few years, we have witnessed the flourishing of a deep conservatism in the South, from the embrace of former U.S. president Donald J. Trump's politics of resentment, [...]

The Papers of James Madison: Presidential Series. Volume 8: July 1814-18 February 1815. Edited by Angela Kreider et al. (Charlottesville and London: University of Virginia Press, 2015. Pp. xlii, 711. [...]

A study was conducted to investigate the complexities of business-government relations in the United Kingdom's pulp and paper industry from 1950 to 1980. The failing competitiveness of the sector during this period can be attributed to the difficulties of dealing with the different levels of government and the lack of capital expenditure on modernization.

The Selected Papers of John Jay, Volume 2: 1780-1782 & Volume 3: 1782-1784. Edited by Elizabeth M. Nuxoll, Mary Gallagher, and Jennifer Steenshorne. (Charlottesville, VA: University Press of Virginia, 2012 [...]

The Papers of Andrew Jackson. Volume 10: 1832. Edited by Daniel Feller, Thomas Coens, and Laura-Eve Moss. (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2016. Pp. xxxvi, 914. $92.00, ISBN 978-1-62190-267-6.) The [...]

The first panacea for a mismanaged nation is inflation of the currency; the second is war. Both bring a temporary prosperity; both bring a permanent ruin. But both are the [...]

The Papers of James Madison: Secretary of State Series, Volume 10: 1 July 1805-3J December 1805. Edited by Mary A. Hackett et al. (Charlottesville and London: University of Virginia Press, [...]

The Papers of Howard Washington Thurman. Volume 3: The Bold Adventure, September 1943-May 1949. Edited by Walter Earl Fluker et al. (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2015. Pp. lxxx, [...]

The Papers of George Washington: Revolutionary War Series. Volume 23: 22 October-31 December 1779. Edited by William M. Ferraro. (Charlottesville and London: University of Virginia Press, 2015. Pp. liv, 849. [...]

Paper: Paging Through History. By Mark Kurlansky. (New York, NY: W. W. Norton, 2016. Pp. xx, 354. $27.95.) Mark Kurlansky is the author of many best-selling books including Salt and [...]

The Selected Papers of Jane Addams: Volume 3--Creating Hull-House and an International Presence, 1889-1900. Edited by Mary Lynn McCree Bryan, Maree de Angury, and Ellen Skerrett. (Urbana: University of Illinois [...]