53 Days on Starvation Island: How The US Marines Fought on Guadalcanal While Completely Surrounded
On August 20, 1942, twelve Marine dive-bombers and nineteen Marine fighters landed at Guadalcanal. Their mission: defeat the Japanese navy and prevent it from sending more men and supplies to "Starvat...
23 Jul 202459min
Taiwan’s 100-Year Rise From Japanese Colony to Monopoly Producer of Microchips
When global supply chains were shut down in 2020 and messily rebooted after COVID lockdowns ceased, one island nation emerged as the most important player in getting critical components to factories a...
18 Jul 202443min
When States Rights Were Emancipatory and Federalism was Restrictive: The Interbellum Constitution of 1812-1865
Today, the words “federalism” and “originalism” are bandied about in the news almost daily, but to get at the underpinnings of these modern interpretations of constitutional law, it is essential to lo...
16 Jul 202448min
Is America Going Through a Late Roman Moment of Its Own?
Every citizen of every state for the last two thousand years has compared his nation to Rome at some point. Americans considered Geroge Washington their Cincinnatus for taking on supreme power and giv...
11 Jul 202446min
How Five Castaways Survived After Being Left for Dead on the Falklands in 1812
Charles H. Barnard, captain of the American sealing brig Nanina, had only the best of intentions. His aim was to ensure the survival of the people under his care. On June 11, 1813, Barnard and four ot...
9 Jul 202444min
The Capetians: The Dynasty That Made Medieval France and Gave Us the Fleur-De-Lys
If Gothic cathedrals, troubadours, and the Crusades evoke a certain picture of medieval Europe, you might be surprised that these foundations of a shared French culture continue to shape European soci...
4 Jul 202455min
Why the Book is Humanity’s Most Important Invention
Even in our increasingly digitized world, the print book endures as a technology at the heart of human culture. Throughout its 550-yearhistory, the book has transformed at the hands of countless print...
2 Jul 202448min
How and Why Humans Started Speaking
Most people know at least 50,000 words and speak around 16,000 per day. We speak between 120 and 200 words per minute and read them at twice that speed. We invent word games like crosswords, Scrabble,...
27 Jun 202452min
