John W. Nevin: Reformed Critique of the Altar Call
John Williamson Nevin, Mercersburg Theology, and Hart's biography: a high-church Calvinist take on the anxious bench, revivalism, and the altar call.
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Philip the Bold: Kleptocracy as an Art
Richard Vaughan on Philip II, Duke of Burgundy (1363–1404): ransom at Poitiers, French royal politics, and building the Burgundian state through...
The Plantagenet Triptych: Dan Jones' Saga of English History
Review of Dan Jones' The Plantagenets, Henry V, and The Wars of the Roses—popular history, Plantagenet dynasty, Henry V, and Wars of the Roses as...
Jackson: The Determination of Union
H. W. Brands’ Andrew Jackson biography: Scots-Irish frontier ethos, New Orleans, the presidency, Indian removal, and Jackson as blunt democratic...
Walter Ong: Ramus, Method, and the Decay of Dialogue
Walter Ong on Petrus Ramus (1515–1572): anti-Aristotelian pedagogy, printed diagrams, the birth of “method,” and how print reshaped rhetoric,...