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Detail from the Rotunda of the U.S. Capitol.

Common Good and Common Evil in American Religion

Review of America’s Religious Wars: The Embattled Heart of Our Public Life, by Kathleen M. Sands (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2019)
… religion, therefore, is often a means of arguing about the meanings of other elements of our social and political …
Dr. Aleš Hrdlička

“No law can change our blood"

Review of Blood Will Tell: Native Americans and Assimilation Policy, by Katherine Ellinghaus Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2017.

A New View of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: From Needs and Narratives to Negotiation

… The same set of historical facts can yield different meanings for different people and that is surely the case … would demand that each side come to understand the deeper meaning of those “facts” to the people who believe them. … the underlying emotional, cultural, and psychological meanings that the parties involved have invested in these …
Booker T. Washington

Picturing Black History

… War and is located on a site that is heavy with racial meaning. The site was chosen for this memorial because it …
Shakespeare For All Time, by Stanley Wells Book cover.

Shakespeare For All Time

Review of Shakespeare For All Time, by Stanley Wells (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003)
… of them, Wells is well-positioned to demonstrate just how meaningful Shakespeare has been to generations of …
The 3rd Tipperary Brigade of the Old IRA, pictured during the early 1920s.

100 Years of Irish Independence and Division

… sentiment in Ireland became increasingly polarized, meaning that the autonomy promised by Home Rule would be too … conflict between the English and Irish would continue to plague Northern Ireland until the end of the 20 th century. …