us history – Markham Shaw Pyle, author & historian

A look at how properly to observe Independence Day.

Because hubris—particularly in the achievements of others, and not of oneself—is no true patriotism, a few quiet, Anglican words from the ’28 BCP on the proper observance of US Independence Day, brought to you by a thorough conservative.

Memorial Whitmonday: a personal reflection

A few thoughts on the day upon this year’s and every year’s consonance of Memorial Day in the United States of America and Eastertide, Ascensiontide, and Whitsuntide.

Civil rights – and wrongs – in America

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”