In politics, society and the family, men held both the ... by the paterfamilias had a rocky start in life. Around 25 percent of babies in the first century AD did not survive their first year ...

Within two years, the family was bankrupt and Herman's father ... Despite being considered among the best poems of the 19th century, Battle-Pieces sold a meager 486 copies.

From the nation’s founding to the Civil War, he argues, religion provided a sacred, even transcendent framework for defining America’s identity and charting its course. In shaping both the ...