Last week the balance of power and responsibility within the British Commonwealth of Nations shifted. The Dominions loomed a little larger, London a little smaller. It was a slight shift; the bulk of ...

When one first encounters “The Course of Empire,” the Consummation seems to loom over the rest of the paintings. It is the largest (130 cm x 196 cm, to the others’ 100 cm x 161 cm), and in Thomas Cole ...

The disasters of war in Ukraine have not yet found their Francisco Goya, but the reporting of journalists conveys a graphic picture of the death and destruction there. This war, like all its ...

Reviewed Works: A Nation Without Borders: The United States and Its World in an Age of Civil Wars, 1830–1910 by Steven Hahn, Matthew Karp; This Vast Southern Empire: Slaveholders at the Helm of ...

At first glance, there seems to be very little of the divine in Cole’s Course of an Empire. The story follows the path of civilization primarily from the perspective of human agency. Even in Lord ...