Yesterday we posted an Author’s Corner interview with Stephen Brumwell, author of Turncoat: Benedict Arnold and the Crisis of American Liberty. Over at The Weekly Standard, Gordon Wood reviews the book. Here is a taste: It was once common knowledge, the story...
Stephen Brumwell is a freelance writer and independent historian based in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. This interview is based on his new book Turncoat: Benedict Arnold and the Crisis of American Liberty (Yale University Press, 2018). JF: What led you to write Turncoat?...
Elaine Crane is Distinguished Professor of History at Fordham University. This interview is based on her new book, The Poison Plot: A Tale of Adultery and Murder in Colonial Newport (Cornell University Press, 2018). JF: What led you to write The Poison Plot?...
I think it was Virginia Senator Tim Kaine who her first raised the “T” word in the wake of news that senior officials in the Trump presidential campaign, including Donald Trump Jr., met with a Russian lawyer in June 2016....
Here is a taste of the press release from Washington College, one of the sponsors of the award. Author Nathaniel Philbrick has won the coveted George Washington Prize, including an award of $50,000, for his book, Valiant Ambition: George Washington,...
