DENTON, Texas — When Andrew Torget was a kid, he used to look through the Guinness Book of World Records and wonder which way he could get his name in it. “Could I grow the longest fingernails?" ...
“It was at Rome, on the 15th of October 1764, as I sat musing amidst the ruins of the Capitol, while the barefooted friars were singing vespers in the Temple of Jupiter, that the idea of writing the ...
History offers no promise of an answer or a happy ending. There is not even a promise of a happy beginning: The further back we go, the less we have to go on. Worst of all, a historian cannot make ...