Historic Photo: Summer Jam Festival at Watkins Glen, NY, 1973. The great youth-oriented music festival attracted a staggering 600,000 people, including one who contacted me.
My own Holy Grail: Wagner’s great opera “Parsifal.” Wagner's greatest opera leaves the modern listener with a lot to think about.
When history gives us a new precedent. Biden shattered U.S. historical precedent on Sunday. What does it mean going forward?
The Great Fire of Rome and Nero’s fiddle: an egregious historical distortion. The emperor did not "fiddle while Rome burned." It's a bit more complicated than that.
This may be a good time to recall 1968, good and bad. Here are some things that were going on during those 12 tumultuous months.
Dealing With Campaign 2024: Some Historical Perspectives. Feeling uneasy about the election? Stop reading news. Start reading history.
Historic Painting: “The Girl Who Found The Golden Horn” by Harald Slott-Møller, 1906. This painting commemorates the discovery, in 1639, of one of the world's great Iron Age art treasures, sadly now lost to history.