Gentz called the American Revolution “defensive” and the French one “offensive.” Maistre traced the latter’s most offensive ...

It may not have been the first, argues John Hardiman in The French Revolution: A Political History, but it was the first of ...

Clear-eyed works of history and analysis—and a moving memoir of captivity—offered insights that transcended headlines.

FEATURE: Fifty years after the freighter vanished in a November storm, the families left behind — ‘the wives and the sons and the daughters’ — say their faith in Christ has carried them through every ...

Narrated by frequent Burns collaborator Peter Coyote, “The American Revolution” starts well before that fateful July day in 1776 when the Second Continental Congress formally adopted the Declaration ...

LAKE SUPERIOR, MI — “Things look pretty bad. It looks like she may have split apart at the seams.” In the hours after the 728-foot Edmund Fitzgerald abruptly vanished from the radar during a gale on ...

Like the tragic story it’s based on, “The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald” has a knack for getting stuck in people’s heads and haunting its listeners. That’s essentially what happened to Jeremy ...

Sign up for the Slatest to get the most insightful analysis, criticism, and advice out there, delivered to your inbox daily. The gales of November came early—and in ...

LAKE SUPERIOR, MI - “Things look pretty bad. It looks like she may have split apart at the seams.” In the hours after the 728-foot Edmund Fitzgerald abruptly vanished from the radar during a gale on ...

You may know it was a powerful storm that sank the Edmund Fitzgerald 50 years ago today. In the video below, I try to give you some insights into what the weather and Lake Superior may have looked ...

Not only is it more geographically precise — the ship loaded at Superior’s towering ore docks, not “some mill” — it’s just as easy to sing. The meter is virtually the same. Lightfoot’s haunting ballad ...

MICHIGAN, USA — It's been half a century since the S.S. Edmund Fitzgerald sank in Lake Superior on Nov. 10, 1975, taking the lives of all 29 members of her crew. 50 years ago on Monday, one of the ...