History Articles

• De Tocqueville on Presidential Power — What de Tcqueville saw in the 1830s was not what he would see now. by C.B. Greenberg
• De Tocqueville’s Eyes — State of 1830's American democracy. by C.B. Greenberg
• Penny Serenade — A penny for Paul's thoughts. by Paul Basil
• In a Glass Cage — “Eichmann in Jerusalem: a Report on the Banality of Evil” (1963) - Hannah Arendt. by C.B. Greenberg
• Original Tour — These books that I have named here, these tours, are adventures of a lifetime. by C.B. Greenberg
• Constitutional Amendments XIII - XV — I have heard the Constitution of the United States disparaged as an hypocrisy for having been written by a bunch of slave-holding plantation owners. by C.B. Greenberg
• “The Demon of Unrest” — “The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War” by C.B. Greenberg
• The Bill of Rights — Yet, there is no book that has so much condensed power in it as does America’s Bill of Rights. by C.B. Greenberg
• Quotations from July 4 — “Democracy is not the default.” by C.B. Greenberg
• Magna Carta — “Harvard Paid $27 for a Copy of Magna Carta. Surprise! It’s an Original.” by C.B. Greenberg
• A Different Sightline — Richard J. Evans, “Hitler’s People: the Faces of the Third Reich” (2024. by C.B. Greenberg
• Birth of a Word, 1833 — How the study of science changed over time, from subject matter encouraged for girls, at least in 1840’s Massachusetts, to subject matter not for girls in the runup to our own time. by C.B. Greenberg
• Original Meanings — Reflecting necessities, compromise, how to define rights, and what could be best achieved in that slice of time. by C.B. Greenberg
• Steerage — It reads in some respects not unlike the immigration tragedy of the Americas today. by C.B. Greenberg
• Genealogy in a Dust Bowl — My origins were obliterated by World War II, and even before that, by family trees broken by czars and the first World War. by C.B. Greenberg
• The Other Night Before — It is well to hear again the voice of the Anonymous Poet, he who has known and/or read of sobering wars. by C.B. Greenberg
• The Silver Thread — “Dirty XXX” is in childhood memories. by C.B. Greenberg
• Ghostwriters — The commercial memoir “Spare” (2023) was written by Prince Harry, or so its jacket cover pronounces. Or was it? by C.B. Greenberg
• Then As Now — Doris Kearns Goodwin writing about the Home Front of World War II. by C.B. Greenberg
• Columbus Proposes What? — Columbus’ world was one of competing European countries and their kings, seeking riches of gold, African elephant tusks, spices and routes to them. by C.B. Greenberg