A collection of essays on a wide range of topics, from New York Quaker marriage lengths in the 1800s to a review of feminist literature from the 1970s. Naturally some were more interesting to me than others, but overall this was a very informative collection. Here are some of the notes I took whil...
This is a collection of 20 essays where noted historians discuss pivotal moments in European history that they would have liked to witness. Fully half, however, deal with British history and none dealt with Scandinavia, Central or Southern Europe; only one came out of Russia. And some are pretty wea...