‘Liberty’s Grid’ by Amir Alexander review
Liberty’s Grid: A Founding Father, a Mathematical Dreamland, and the Shaping of America by Amir Alexander explains how the grid system put the United States on the map.
Liberty’s Grid: A Founding Father, a Mathematical Dreamland, and the Shaping of America by Amir Alexander explains how the grid system put the United States on the map.
J. Edgar Hoover, director of the FBI from 1924 to 1972, thought the Bureau’s mission was to defeat the godless forces of liberalism, feminism and civil rights.
Soaring and swooping through a history of Catholicism, from 1789 to the present day.
Tracing the decline of socialism through the lives of ordinary Cubans.
I Embrace You With All My Revolutionary Fervor: Letters 1947-1967 by Che Guevara collects the deft epistolary prose of the self-styled prophet.
The story of Thomas Jefferson’s bible, his own version of the Gospels.
Holding court to the world in a hotel in Harlem.
The quiet resistance of Dietrich Bonhoeffer.
Filmmakers, revolutionaries, Iranian shahs – Mexico has a long history of providing political asylum.
Why the US shuns its Spanish heritage.