State Primacy: 1832 Eyes — Imagine de Tocqueville's "Democracy in America" classic as a time capsule, including for American governance.by C.B. GreenbergHistory
In a Glass Cage — “Eichmann in Jerusalem: a Report on the Banality of Evil” (1963) - Hannah Arendt.by C.B. GreenbergHistory
Original Tour — These books that I have named here, these tours, are adventures of a lifetime.by C.B. GreenbergHistory
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. GreenbergHistory
“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. GreenbergHistory
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. GreenbergHistory
Magna Carta — “Harvard Paid $27 for a Copy of Magna Carta. Surprise! It’s an Original.” by C.B. GreenbergHistory
A Different Sightline — Richard J. Evans, “Hitler’s People: the Faces of the Third Reich” (2024.by C.B. GreenbergHistory
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. GreenbergHistory
Original Meanings — Reflecting necessities, compromise, how to define rights, and what could be best achieved in that slice of time.by C.B. GreenbergHistory
Steerage — It reads in some respects not unlike the immigration tragedy of the Americas today.by C.B. GreenbergHistory
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. GreenbergHistory
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. GreenbergHistory