History for Pudding

After over a month of faffing around, Prospect has finally published my review of the late Thomas McCraw's The Founders and Financ...

I've just finished giving my first lecture and seminar as an Associate Lecturer in Colonial American History at Oxford Brookes. So that...

A couple of weeks ago I was in Nottingham at a conference on “The History of Failure and the Failure of History”. I was shamefully late, ...

How much does the use of metaphor tell us about the psychological state of a writer? Metaphorical reasoning is very important to the way his...

This is an outline of a paper I am planning to write, which grows out of the concluding section of a different paper I will present in Cambr...

In September 1789 Thomas Jefferson wrote to James Madison from Paris that "the question Whether one generation of men has a right to b...

First of all if you don't already get Stephen Elliott's overly personal emails from the Daily Rumpus , go do that now. Today he wrot...