Meredith Hindley

A public service message

As a meteorologist for the United States Navy for more than twenty years, Kristine Harper is distinctly qualified to talk about the weather.

A young historian pours forth The French Revolution, blood and all, inspiring a generation of Victorian writers.

On animated pies and other curiosities of sixteenth-century life.

Classists become spies for OSS in World War II Greece. 

On the elusive Cleopatra.

How John Breckinridge and the Democratic Party lost the 1860 presidential election

The first First Lady to hit the campaign trail without her husband

On the political and social revolution of lighting up the night.

Two hundred years ago, Pride and Prejudice was anonymously published.