Markham Shaw Pyle is a published legal, political, Congressional, diplomatic, and cultural historian, and the author of “Fools, Drunks, and the United States”: August 12, 1941; Benevolent Designs: The Countess and the General: George Washington, Selina Countess of Huntingdon, their correspondence, & the evangelizing of America; “Roses and Bayonets: A theory of civil disobedience;” andContinue reading “Civil rights – and wrongs – in America”
Author Archives: Markham Shaw Pyle
Credentialism, Careerism, and the Death of Academic History
This morning, on social media, I ran across a post in which a young PhD candidate at a Midwestern University was bemoaning the domination of the publishing lists in History by persons who were not academic historians. I’m not going to embarrass the young man, or those who commented on his post, by being moreContinue reading “Credentialism, Careerism, and the Death of Academic History”
Book review: Escape to the countryside: Peter Maughan’s Batch Magna Chronicles
Ham-on-Wye is a perfectly plausible English place-name. So is Honey Coombe. And so is Batch Magna. We’ll come back to that. A few days ago (it’s been pissing down rain since), on my morning constitutional, I saw, against the backdrop of oak, pecan, and magnolia, not only mockingbirds and cardinals, but egrets as well. We’llContinue reading “Book review: Escape to the countryside: Peter Maughan’s Batch Magna Chronicles”
Markham Shaw Pyle, author & historian 