Back to Medieval Source Book | ORB Main Page | Links to Other Medieval Sites | Byzantine Studies Page Medieval Sourcebook: Procopius of Caesarea: The Secret History Procopius: Secret History, translated by Richard Atwater, (Chicago: P. Covici, 1927; New York: Covici Friede, 1927), reprinted, Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press, 1961, with indication that copyright had expired on the text ...

Back to Medieval Source Book | ORB Main Page | Links to Other Medieval Sites | Medieval Sourcebook: Nennius: Historia Brittonum, 8th century Nennius was an eighth-century historian who is a major source for tales of King Arthur. . Unlike the much more careful Bede, Nennius was, as one modern historian writes unrestrainedly inventive , p. 275]. Not all of Nennius can be dismissed as he ...

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He is Ford Foundation Professor of History at Mount Holyoke College and author of American Sphinx: The Character of Thomas Jefferson , winner of the 1997 National Book Award. He was one of the many Jefferson historians who considered the Jefferson-Hemings relationship unlikely. How central was slavery in Jefferson's life His whole life was lived in the midst of slaves over the course of his ...

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Vol. 5 No. 7 (July, 1995) pp. 192-194 THE SUPREME COURT REBORN: THE CONSTITUTIONAL REVOLUTION IN THE AGE OF ROOSEVELT by William E. Leuchtenburg. New York: Oxford University Press, 1995. 350 pp. Cloth $30.00. Review by David G. Barnum, Department of Political Science, DePaul University. The constitutional revolution of 1937 holds a continuing fascination for constitutional scholars, political ...

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Institute for Historical Review Charles A. Beard: A Tribute Dr. JAMES J. MARTIN Presented at the 1981 Revisionist Conference. I Charles A. Beard was born on 27 November 1874 in Knightstown, Indiana, a small farming community about 35 miles east of Indianapolis. He was the son of a prosperous farmer, and a member of a family in which the intelligent discussion of public affairs was a tradition.

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