The collapse of the Soviet Union and other Marxist regimes around the world seems to have left liberal democracy as the only surviving ideology, and yet many scholars of political thought still find liberal democracy objectionable, using Aristotle's Politics to support their vie…
The children of Philip III of Spain (1578û1621) and Margarita de Austria (1584û1611) inherited great potential power: the abilities to declare war or make peace, to advocate religious doctrine, and to exert lasting influence over art, culture, and taste. The leadership provided …
During the Civil War and Reconstruction, the pejorative term "scalawag" referred to white southerners loyal to the Republican Party. With the onset of the federal occupation of New Orleans in 1862, scalawags challenged the restoration of the antebellum political and social order…
Hinton Rowan Helper (1829-1909) gained notoriety in nineteenth-century America as the author of The Impending Crisis of the South (1857), an antislavery polemic that provoked national public controversy and increased sectional tensions. In his intellectual and cultural biography…
In 1983 the Eisenhower Center at the University of New Orleans began a project to record the recollections of as many people as possible-civilians as well as soldiers-who were involved in one of the most pivotal events of the century. Skillfully edited by Ronald J. Drez and firs…
In 1967, John U. Monro, dean of the college at Harvard, left his twenty-year administrative career at that prestigious university for a teaching position at Miles College-an unaccredited historically black college on the outskirts of Birmingham, Alabama. This unconventional move…
John Marshall (1755-1835) was arguably the most important judicial figure in American history. As the fourth chief justice of the United States Supreme Court, serving from 1801 to1835, he helped move the Court from the fringes of power to the epicenter of constitutional governme…
The name "Suzanne Perron" is synonymous with exquisite detail. Her expertly tailored gowns-worn at the elaborate balls of Mardi Gras and down the aisle at New Orleans weddings-draw from the legacy of couture design. After years working alongside Vera Wang, Carolina Herrera, Anna…
"On the first day of the search, I failed to find the body." So writes forensic anthropologist and bioarchaeologist Mary H. Manhein-or "the bone lady" as law enforcement personnel call her. In this, one of dozens of stories recollected in her powerful memoir, Manhein and the sta…
