Brooks R. Blevins is Professor of History at Missouri State University. This interview is based on his new book, Up South in the Ozarks: Dispatches from the Margins (University of Arkansas Press, 2023). JF: What led you to write Up...
Holly A. Mayer is Professor Emerita of History at Duquesne University. This interview is based on her new book, Women Waging War in the American Revolution (University of Virginia Press, 2022). JF: What led you to write Women Waging War...
I never learned to write one. Stanford education professor David Labaree says that the 5-paragraph essay “was meant to be a step on the way. Now it’s the stifling goal for student and scholar alike.” Here is a taste of...
Here is a taste of Jonathan Lear‘s “We Will Not Be Missed!” It is a wonderful essay on mourning. Just before the pandemic set in, I listened to a lecture on climate change. The lecture went as one might expect....
Wendell Berry has a new book out. It is a collection of essays, short stories, and poetry titled The Art of Loading Brush: New Agrarian Writings. Brian Barth reviews it at Modern Farmer. Here is a taste: In his latest book, The...
Over at Dissent, Francesca Mari (associate editor of Texas Monthly) reviews two collections of essays by Harvard history professor Jill Lepore: The Mansion of Happiness: A History of Life and Death and The Story of America: Essays on Origins. (The...
I am not a big fan of end of the year lists and I try to avoid them here at The Way of Improvement Leads Home, but I found this list of the “best essays since 1950” to be worthy […]
If you are not a fan of Eric Miller‘s work, you should be. Cascade Books has recently published a collection of his essays: Glimpses of Another Land: Political Hope, Spiritual Longing. These essays original appeared in places like Books and Culture,...
