Odd Couple II: New Gingrich and me in today’s WaPo
Yesterday’s odd couple was a feature of me and my book on the front page of the Sentinel-Tribune (my local paper) and a full-page Hobby Lobby ad on the back. Today, on the Washington Post Op-Ed page, I have a piece on how politicians use the founders, and New Gingrich has a piece… using the founders.
Sons of Liberty review roundup
Now that the dust has settled, some guys wearing 18th-century portraits are done playing casual ballgames for the year, and we in northwest Ohio are buried under 10 feet inches of snow, it’s time to sift through the reviews of the History Channel’s Sons of Liberty series that aired last month.
Let’s get Sirius: yes, I’ll be on the Signorile show today
For your listening pleasure, I’ll be on the Signorile Show, live, today (Feb. 4) around 4:35 or so. If you’ve got Sirius XM (and you should get a free trial and listen online if you don’t), don’t miss out!
Best Super Bowl Commercial: American Revolution Turbotax, of course
Tonight’s American Revolution surprise: a witty Turbotax commercial , complete with background music from a fellow whose name I once heard historian John Morton Blum pronounce in a lecture as “Bobby Die-lin” (I don’t think Blum was a big fan). Sure, what the colonists were protesting was lower taxes, more stringently enforced, but hey, it was a […]
Review round-up on AMC American Revolution spy series “Turn”
Early reviews are in on Turn, the new AMC series based upon Alexander Rose’s book Washington’s Spies. Media critics: Marlow Stern at The Daily Beast Piya SinhaRoy from Reuters Willa Paskin on Slate Historians: J.L. Bell at Den of Geek Michael Schellhammer at Journal of the American Revolution And, take a look at this: […]