Category Archives: History

”A Friend in Power is a Friend Lost”

Posted on January 26, 2021 by Ron Pavellas

Here is The Education of Henry Adams, an autobiography or, perhaps more accurately, a memoir in that there are around 20 years missing, those with his wife Clover. (See the link at the end for access to her life, and … Continue reading →

Posted in Economics, Government & Politics, History | Tagged Charles Francis Adams, Clover Adams, Education of Henry Adams, Henry Adams, John Quincy Adams, Peter Chardon Brooks, Theodore Roosevelt, William Henry Seward | 5 Comments

Is the United States of America Still a Republic?

Posted on January 7, 2021 by Ron Pavellas

At the close of the Constitutional Convention of 1787 in Philadelphia, the Constitution of the United States having finally been adopted, Benjamin Franklin was asked, “Well, Doctor, what have we got a republic or a monarchy?” “A republic, if you … Continue reading →

Posted in History, War & Peace | Tagged A Study of History (Abridged), Arnold J. Toynbee, British Empire, Byzantine Empire, Edward Gibbon, Julius Caesar, Oswald Spengler, Ottoman Empire, Roman Empire, The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, The Decline of the West | 7 Comments

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