Tag: Lincoln

Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that t...

I have a wise-guy friend who sent me an article about Abraham Lincoln and the “famous Armstrong murder trial” in the spring of 1858. I thought it was a joke, but no, it was a real case. The accused was a man named William “Duff” Armstrong. Not one of my relati...

The films of Edward Yang (1947–2007) were among the first to capture the ethos of Taiwan’s rapid modernization-particularly Taipei urbanites adjusting to their global city’s ever-evolving zeitgeist-even as they exhibited a novelistic field of vision that superseded time and place. ...