In this edition of the Reading Wheel Review, Dr. Stephen Presley, CRCD’s Director of Education and Engagement, and Dr. Hunter Baker, CRCD’s Senior Fellow for Civic Renewal and Religious Liberty, interview Dr. Wilfred M. McClay. Dr. McClay is a senior fellow at CRCD and the Victor Davis Hanson Chair in
I love American history. My interest was sparked in elementary school by reading biographies of great leaders. Surveys of American history assigned in high school and college classes threatened to detract from this love, but it was resurrected by books written by academic and popular authors that helped me better
Imagine trying to write a narrative history of the United States in the mid-2020s. The entire process is fraught with standard issues of historiography, such as where to start and end, what to include and leave out, and so on. Furthermore, no matter what route the historian takes, he or
This book extends a come-as-you-are invitation, and as such, it attempts to be a friendly point of entry for all sorts of readers and students of history, whatever their background. As the best stories show us, simplicity and complexity are not mutually exclusive. Hence this book strives to be, as