History
Plutarch’s Lives, founding documents, and essays on Western and American history.
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Civil War Battlefields Near Nashville: A Father’s Guide to Franklin, Stones River, Fort Donelson, and Fort Negley
Middle Tennessee was fought over for four years. A guide to four Civil War sites within reach of Nashville, the facts behind each, and…
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The Life of Caius Gracchus
By Plutarch / Translated by John Dryden CAIUS Gracchus, at first, either for fear of his brother’s enemies, or designing to render them more…
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The Life of Tiberius Gracchus
By Plutarch / Translated by John Dryden HAVING completed the first two narratives, we now may proceed to take a view of misfortunes, not…
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The Founding of Nashville: The Donelson Voyage and the Winter March That Built a City
Nashville began with a winter march over a frozen river and a thousand mile voyage in a flatboat. The true story of the city’s…
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The Life of Demosthenes
By Plutarch / Translated by John Dryden WHOEVER it was, Sosius, that wrote the poem in honor of Alcibiades, upon his winning the chariot…
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The Life of Cicero
By Plutarch / Translated by John Dryden IT is generally said, that Helvia, the mother of Cicero, was both well born and lived a…
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Why Boys Should Study Western Civilization
The story of the West is a boy’s inheritance, and schools have mostly stopped telling it as a story. Why it matters and how…
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How to Teach History to a Teenage Boy
Boys who hate history class will spend hours on a battle they chose themselves. The difference is method. Three principles for teaching history to…
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The Life of Cleomenes
By Plutarch / Translated by John Dryden THUS fell Agis. His brother Archidamus was too quick for Leonidas, and saved himself by a timely…
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The Life of Demetrius
By Plutarch / Translated by John Dryden INGENIOUS men have long observed a resemblance between the arts and the bodily senses. And they were…